The students in the course I TA, with their armadas of blinking, whirring Vaios, Dells and iMacs find any number distractions in order to ignore lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays. Mostly they bury their noses in facebook, myspace, failblog, fmylife and I’ve seen, I kid you not, porn.
The only one I’ve managed to catch occurred last week. A student spent most of the lecture scrolling through failblog. His neighbor got up to visit the restroom near the end class and as he pased by, I asked his compatriot’s name. When he returned, he whispered in the failblogger’s ear, who turned to look back at me. I wagged my finger at him. Looking petrified, he turned around and immediately slammed his computer shut.
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