PHD Comics<\/a>. I think this is almost certainly true in large classrooms like that depicted. In smaller classrooms it still has the tendency to be this way, but not always. Perhaps students have figured out that, in a smaller non-tiered classroom, the professor\u2019s eye is often above the front row students? This semester I have students sitting in the back who are constantly engaged in discussion.<\/p>\nExcept for when\u00a0they are on Facebook, of course.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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