Jul 14 2009
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“ Of course, I’m talking about audiences where the attendees WANT to be listening to me. Classrooms are different. One of the deeply depressing realities of teaching at university is that many of the students are simply not interested in being there. I find this frustrating no matter what, laptops or not. My goal then is to drag their attention kicking and screaming to me by playing games with their attention, visually or otherwise. I don’t expect them to pay attention to me by default; I want to earn their attention… or at least play games with it.
