I watched an interesting video on TED about people who doodle during lectures or in a class. It brings up the question of how we should respond to our own students who like to doodle. I've always been a kind of doodler, and I agree that it helps you think, especially when listening to lectures you know are important but frankly are boring. So how should we treat our students with respect to this? Our tendency as teachers might be to demand undivided attention, but when we do so we might actually be demanding no attention. Another thing to consider is, where to draw the line (pun intended) between doodling for active listening, and drawing in class because of ADD or because the student is shutting out and not paying attention. This is one of those grey-area type questions that we shouldn't take lightly, considering it's tied directly to the process of learning itself. Your thoughts…
Here's a link to the video on TED if any of you are interested.
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