… why not just ban the stuff? Everybody’s doing it.
“There will come a day of reckoning, when projects are due and exams are taken, and I will have virtually no sympathy for a student who I know is (not paying attention to lecture), who performs poorly. It’s his own fault,” [University of Florida professor Carl] Barfield said.
A nursing student at UF gets points for honesty.
“I’d rather be on my phone than listening to the professor.”
April 8th, 2009 at 1:21PM
Unless you’re at a university (to use that word loosely) where project due dates are negotiable, exam grades are negotiable, student attendance is negotiable, actual evidence of education having occurred is ignored, and the diploma is virtually guaranteed.
At those places, such issues are moot, and those of us who attempted to ensure students learned something other than how to text message faster get penalized for doing so.