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Your discussion of extra credit reminds me of the Alfie Kohn video we watched last week in class. I agree that using extra credit to go to the Student Service Center isn’t ideal. After all, then you get a lot of students who are just there to be there, and likely won’t even do much work. At the same time, though, I can understand where the teacher is coming from. Any way to get students to go get extra help seems like a good thing, even if that means playing into the whole grades over everything dynamic.
Alec, your story about the phones is interesting, and it really could be easy to write it off as standard high schooler behaviour. It makes a lot of sense, though, that phone usage during class has gotten a lot worse after covid. I know that I sent a lot of texts and otherwise used my phone during zoom class last year, so I can only imagine how much it was happening in high school classes. The phone thing made me think about how much the year plus of online class must have affected students at that age. It is such an important time for developing work habits as well as social identities, so it makes sense that kids have come back to school now with habits such as using their phone during class and being disconnected from everyone else, like you observed.
