75 minutes without Facebook: Is that so hard?

May 19, 2011 By Joanne 4 Comments

College students show up for class, then spend 75 minutes checking Facebook photos, sending Tweets to friends and ignoring the professor.  She thinks it’s rude. They disagree.

Also on Community College Spotlight:  Is it the professor’s job to teach manners?

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CommentsBill says: May 19, 2011 at 8:10 am

This is a reflection of what has happened to our society. We’ve got a population so addicted to instant messaging, tweets, email, texting, cell phones, etc; that they have no idea how to manage their lives without such nonsense.

30 years ago, cell phones and mobile phones were very expensive, and pagers were just starting to come onto the market (though they were expensive as well). In those days, you phoned someone, and someone answered, they didn’t, or someone took a message and called back later.

Come to think of it, society was a lot more polite as well.

CSOnline says: May 19, 2011 at 11:33 am

When I was in business school, the professor had the ability to turn off internet access for just our class during the class time. This “forced” us to pay attention. It is too easy to be distracted with Facebook, Twitter and emails. With the cost of higher education these days – people should be paying attention!

Richard Aubrey says: May 19, 2011 at 11:40 am

Ref manners: Good manners is, compared to those without, worth at least $100k in the bank over a lifetime and it doesn’t cost much money to teach it. Unless, of course, the parents’ job is done so poorly that you need a college course.

Mark Roulo says: May 19, 2011 at 12:17 pm

It would be expensive, but colleges (and high schools?) might try this:

http://www.amazon.com/Y-Shield-Shielding-Paint-liter-size/dp/B0025Z8GAY

I don’t know if windows would make this work less well, but many large lecture halls pretty much don’t have windows.

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