Students not to blame for web multitasking in class

Garth Beyer:

I'm going to be bold here and ask a question: "Does anyone pay attention in lectures?"

Of course some students do, but the majority are busy with other things: Facebook, emails, applying to internships (I hope you see the irony of this), reading, texting and now - what is most trendy - viewing images. Obviously not just any images but powerful images. Witty images. Funny images. Cute images. Images that really spark an emotion. In a couple of my classes if I sit in the back and look around, I can see a handful of people that are using laptops looking at images on Imgur.

Warning: If you haven't been on sites like Imgur, 9gag, or Imgfav yet, you will get sucked in once you visit. You've been warned.

The days in which students could only spend boring classes napping are gone. The same goes with the age of merely texting. College students are notorious for multitasking. To think that we only text in class or only go on Facebook is outlandish.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 19, 2013 1:35 AM
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