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Hijacking Your Students’
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Hijacking Your Students’ Technology to
Increase Engagement in the Classroom
The solution to this is not placing a
soundproof safe in the front of your classroom
to lock away the technology. The solution is
hijacking their technology. This is not a magic box with which you take control of their
screens and keyboards. It does not discharge
an electric shock when their eyes make contact
with their screens. Hijacking their technology
is about incorporating their devices into your
classes.
By: Larry Straining, CPLP
Part-time Instructor
Business & Computer Science
Northeast Campus
Is your students’ focus on their lap instead of the topic at hand? Do you only recognize
some students by the tops of their head? Do you
feel like your students’ technology is interfering
with your class and their learning? If you have
answered “yes” to any of these, you may have
distracted students in your classroom. But is it
really the students fault? Is it the fault of the technology?
Let’s imagine a history class of 20 students, but only 18 have mobile technology.
To prevent excluding anyone, group your
students together. Not only does this give all
students access to the technology, but by pair3
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