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Provided you're not disturbing other students, I don't have a problem with you using your phone during class. I don't see college classes as being about learning--it would be way more efficient to buy the textbooks and read them at your own pace. Rather, they're about demonstrating your knowledge level to the teacher and being graded on what you can do. If you think you have the material well in hand, choosing not to listen is your prerogative. Just don't be surprised if you miss something important.

Enh, I'm okay with folks using their phones, as long as they aren't distracting other people with beeps, bright screens, that kind of crap.

--Rogan

My college classes just never match up to the standard profile. Twice as important as the reading.

Well, except that just reading the textbook is not the most efficient way to learn stuff.

I feel like I've had much better professors than you have.

I've been thinking about this, and it's possible you've simply had smaller class sizes, or else longer classes. I'm used to such huge classes that the teacher has no time to help individual students, and such short class periods that there's little time to do anything more than go over the basics of what the textbook discusses in more detail. I would probably be a lot more invested in classes if there was more discussion of the real-world applications of what we learn in the textbooks, but that seems to only happen a few times per semester, when we've finally caught up to where we're supposed to be in discussing the textbook material.

I don't see college classes as being about learning--it would be way more efficient to buy the textbooks and read them at your own pace.

That may work for some but not for all.

"it would be way more efficient to buy the textbooks and read them at your own pace"

...yeah, no.

Oh, you're one of those instructors. So, I imagine some of your students will say, "Don't waste money on the tuition fees, just buy the textbook and read it."

you're a college instructor? that's...unsettling. as is your apparent teaching philosophy

I'm almost 100% sure they're a student who just phrased it weirdly.

No, I'm not an instructor. I'm kind of baffled at that reading, actually.

(Maybe I should start a list of all the random things people have assumed I am. I still remember that guy who thought I was an undercover narcotics officer because I didn't agree when he said that cops should be publicly murdered.)

Wow. I always learned a lot in my lectures.

I remember things really well when I get to hear them and write them down. Reading assigned passages was hell because I had to re-read things and take notes to make anything stick and that made it take forever. (Research is cool because I could zero-in on the information I was looking for and just skim the rest without fear of being tested on it.)

uh, I've never been in a class where reading the textbook would have given you even half the knowledge that the lectures provided. maybe you have shitty teachers.

It depends - I don't think checking the time or very quickly reading a text during a lecture is problematic. During a seminar, discussion-based class, I do think it's flat out rude. And I do think it's rude to be on it frequently even in a lecture class. Unless you are being really stealthy and have it on silent, it's distracting to the other students and disrespectful to the professor.

And I don't agree with your definition of a class, either. Well, I'm sure there are classes like that, but they shouldn't be like that.

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