Angry Professor! D=
Leo is a coach at AWC of the girls’ volleyball team and also
a staff member. He has been teaching sports psychology for the past 1 1/2 years. As
a teacher he mentions the problem of trying to keep the students attention. He
says, “Seems like I’m competing with cell phones.” As a new teacher he tried
enforcing keeping phones turned off or in silent mode, but that took too much
time away from class. With time he let the students make their own choices
since like he says, “I am here to teach not to babysit young adults.” He sees
on a daily basis that at least one half of his students are engrossed in their
cell phones. He obviously thinks technology is taking away from college
students, especially cell phones and IPods. They are causing negative effects
on the students learning process and consequently affecting their academic
performance. He also mentions how last school year he taught in a classroom
with computers and therefore he would allow students to turn them on and sign
in onto their blackboard accounts to access the daily lesson notes. As an
instructor he was able to view the student’s screens through his own computer. Computers
turned out to be another distraction for students, “they were unable to stay on
task. They were too tempted to sign onto Facebook or even do unfinished
homework.” Since coach Leo is u coach
the interview turned into an easy going conversation. In the middle of our interview
his phone went off…that was not ironic at all.
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| Coach Leo! :) |
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