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Originally Posted by Chubulor
Yes, but keeping students engaged is often a euphemism for entertaining them in class. It is extremely difficult, and in many cases impossible, to mix true education and entertainment appealing enough to drag them away from what they habitually do otherwise. . . ..
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It's not just kids. My wife teaches college classes and one of her classes is unfortunately in a computer lab. The ADULTS (granted, mostly 20-somethings) are constantly distracted -- surfing, playing on facebook, reading emails, etc. during the class. She says they're all doing considerably worse than a different group of students taking the same class which isn't scheduled in a computer room. Can't send college students to the principal's office of give them detention. I suggested she talk to IT and find out if there is an easy way of temporarily removing the computers in the room from the school's LAN during class time.