What on earth is a "weakly written opinion piece" just as a matter of arguing this through contrast More to the point: Honestly my 8ams in 1991 had these exact

What on earth is a "weakly written opinion piece" just as a matter of arguing this through contrast More to the point: Honestly my 8ams in 1991 had these exact problems! Parking, partying, sleeping in class, the whole schlemozzle. We did not have phones but we did have TVs - there are millions of people who for a lack of something better to do have entire Seinfeld/Simpsons episodes locked in their heads. But considering the amount of students whose primary social activity is "I go back to my dorm room and play CoD with my high school friends" you have a point. But I'd suggest that the activity indicates a mental wellness issue for first gen student. Loneliness, insecurity - it impacts their digital hygiene and can't be addressed by "be more adult." That said, I see thriving club and extracurricular activity here, too ("when hanging out in groups") and I think it's healthy but largely unregulated in that all kinds of unhealthy interpersonal interactions emerge there. Or is binge drinking no longer an issue? And yr professors...well. These adults are doomscrolling and gaming and going to shows and being parents and all that stuff on top of the assignments and prep that they have, too. So I don't think this is all reducible to media use. I remember just having to stare blankly the five minutes before classes began, where students now just look at their phones, so it's not like students staring at phones is something GenXers wouldn't have done. I like to get there and just maintain uninterrupted eye contact with them until they are suitably freaked out. It's a pedagogy