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Stephen Downes

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You're standing at the front of the class giving your usual Thursday lecture when you notice that the clicking from the back of the room has increased in volume. It's an audible vote: your students are tuning out and taking to the web, waiting less than patiently for you to return to something more interesting. This article looks at the issue of internet access in the classroom, but astonishingly, never comes up with the obvious solution: make classes more interesting!

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