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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a community college instructor. There is often one kid per class who asks a bunch of questions. My hunch is the others just don’t care. Like others said, they are addicted to their phones & care about little else. On the first day of class I have each kid fill out a personal info sheet which includes their phone number. If a student ignores my instruction to put phones away, they usually end up looking at the phone on their lap, which is easy to spot. Occasionally when this happens I will give the class a short problem to work on. While they are busy with that, I sit at my desk, retrieve the phone-on-lap kid’s number, & hold MY phone on MY lap. I send the kid a text saying “PUT YOUR PHONE AWAY!!” The kid usually frantically looks around the room to see which student sent it. But everybody is working on my little task. Eventually the kid will look in my direction & see me staring directly at them. That usually fixes the problem. [/quote]
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