Having had this happen to me not too long ago, my decision was to tell the person that if they were not goint to attend to what was going on in class that they should be somewhere else. Their choice was to attend AND participate in class or not attend at all. This class did have an attendence/participation grade attached to it and when the student said that it was unfair to deprive him of the attendence/participation points I pointed out that if he were to be studying for another class, he certainly couldn't be participating in our class. He decided that the test he was taking in the next class was more important than our class that day.
Now to a question that comes out of your student's statement. What does being a kinesthetic learner have to do with multitasking?
Bob Wildblood
Indiana University Kokomo
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PS It was good "seeing" so many familiar faces on the conference yesterday.
Hetzel, Rod wrote:
Hi again: Let me share a story with you and then ask a question. In my previous post I mentioned a student (a psychology major and one of my advisees) who told me that she found one of my classes last semester to be boring and monotonous. This is the same student who approached me this semester before one of my classes and said: "Dr. Hetzel, I just wanted to tell you that I have a test next period in another class and that I'm going to be studying for this test during your class today." Her plan was to attend my class, but have her books and notes out for her other class so she could study for the test. There are only about ten students in this class and we all sit around one big table. I told her that I understood her anxiety about her upcoming test, but would consider her behavior to be rude and disruptive to the rest of the class. She still studied for her test, but tried to be discrete about it.
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