I finally accessed work email and discovered that my colleagues are eagerly discussing the possibility to create dead zones for the wireless Internet connection in our classrooms.
It is sad to see that people are so incapable of making their teaching interesting enough to compete with Facebook and have to resort to these measures that declare their impotence as educators very openly.
In my own courses, I prefer that the wireless should always be available. Students can look up words in online dictionaries easily, they have no excuse to avoid using synonyms, there is no endless, “I left my dictionary at home, so I can’t discuss the reading.” What’s not to like?
And I’m really not afraid of competing with Twitter and Facebook. I know how to be more engaging and if I fail, then I will have nobody to blame but myself.
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Exactly! As long as my students are not making so much noise that other students cannot hear what is going on in the class (speaking by me or the students) I do not care what they do.
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As you could have said, what a bunch of vile freakazoïds!
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I have found that your point of view (one that makes a lot of sense) is not the view adopted by most professors, however.
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