Giving this website full of autistics obsessed with ranking and categorising stuff a poll option is like giving rats one of those buttons that makes cocaine
Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don’t need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it’s enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn’t do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it’s a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.
This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say “I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report” and you bring me just a first aid kit, it’s so much more efficient to say “thanks now can you bring me an accident report” than “I asked you to bring an accident report why didn’t you bring me one”.
Once you’ve internalized “a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument” you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing
I genuinely despise uni lecturers and tutors who shame you for having a mobile on class. Like, we’re adults, with adult responsibilities.
By all means your students should have them on silent for the sake of the class but a lot of the mature age students have kids. They need to be able to receive calls from their schools.
Most of us have parents and grandparents. Guy a few rows down from me just checked his phone (obviously felt it vibrating) and the lecturer immediately was like “what’s more important than this class that you’re checking you phone” and this poor kid has to announce to the class that his granddad has had a heart attack.
Like, ffs. This isn’t high school. We’re old enough to use our phones like adults. Some of us use S2T during lectures due to hearing difficulties.
