One of the challenges of classroom management is that some students will find ways around your policies. The latest? You instruct your students to turn off their cellphones in your class. However, due to new technology, there is now a high-pitched ring tone that young adults can hear but many college professors cannot. That's because adults start to lose the ability to hear higher frequencies beginning in early middle age. Thus, the student knows when a text message has been received without us hearing the phone ring.
You have to admire the creativity...
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I wonder if there is a "counter" sound that only parents who pay for their student's tuition can hear. the sound of a failing grade, maybe?
Keep creating...and teaching, Mike
Posted by: Michael Wagner | July 01, 2006 at 12:19 AM