Well it seems that time has slowed down in the office today for everyone. Usually, it’s only slow for one person, but this is almost across campus. So it got me thinking… is it the weather (cold and grey)? The coming long weekend? Boring tasks? What is slowing time for us?
It might be that we are all thinking about the points that I raised above, or something else – but whatever it is, the fact that everyone is feeling it makes me wonder if this would ever happen to a class as well. Would an entire class go slow for a bunch of students, regardless of how dynamic or engaging the instructor/content is?
I think it might happen, and likely does (perhaps more often than we would like to think), but what can an instructor do to notice this and change it? I think if you change the frame of reference for time within the class, that might be able to move things along faster, but by the time you actually figure this out it might be too late and there is no way to predict when these “disruptions of space time” might happen.
Can’t think of much more right now… brain is too slow.
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