People are pretty talkative in my Creative Writing tutorial, but that's also the nature of the class. It's a workshop environment, and you really can't get away with not participating or the prof will call you out.
I think you're right about older students. There's the simple maturity factor for sure--seriously, the number of kids who will sit in class and blatantly text message or listen to their iPods? Yikes. (I've been guilty of surreptitious web surfing during class, so I'm not necessarily directing my "yikes" at the ADD-ness in this case, but at the blatantness--I mean, were you raised in a barn?) Also, especially for students who are either coming back to school after an absence or just starting after taking some time to do other things, they're there because they want to be there, not because it's just what they're expected to do. I'm a major proponent of taking time off prior to university for this reason.
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Date: 2007-03-21 08:52 pm (UTC)I think you're right about older students. There's the simple maturity factor for sure--seriously, the number of kids who will sit in class and blatantly text message or listen to their iPods? Yikes. (I've been guilty of surreptitious web surfing during class, so I'm not necessarily directing my "yikes" at the ADD-ness in this case, but at the blatantness--I mean, were you raised in a barn?) Also, especially for students who are either coming back to school after an absence or just starting after taking some time to do other things, they're there because they want to be there, not because it's just what they're expected to do. I'm a major proponent of taking time off prior to university for this reason.