It is always difficult to get students to pay attention
during my lectures describing information resources in the technical
disciplines. In this hi tech era it is
quite common to observe students on their smart phones while I am lecturing. There is a graduate seminar series in the
chemical engineering department which features outside speakers discussing
their research. Once a year I speak to
this group about information resources in chemical engineering that the library
provides. The professor who coordinates
the seminars requires that the students take notes which he collects after the
lecture.
This certainly requires that the students pay attention, but
I still notice one with her cell phone.
I am interested in seeing the notes that the students took. I also asked the professor to return the
notes to the student so they can refer to them in the future.
