Distractions in Schools
Posted on August 24, 2004 in misc.
80 percent of classrooms have Internet access, 70 percent of college students even have wireless, and it's no surprise the distractions in the classroom are going up.
But instead of trying to ban these gadgets, teachers are taking advantage of them to be more interesting than the distractions ... according the NY Times article that Matt Henning forwarded.
Yogen threw in another idea: "Schools should use distraction-reports as a measure of the performance of the teacher. Higher the distractions during a class, less interesting and engaging is the teacher. The same measure would work for company meetings and presentations."
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