By Erica Breunlin | Colorado Sun
In the last years of Jill Haffley’s teaching career, her lessons were increasingly punctuated by the buzz of a text message, sometimes even a “cacophony of noises” as students’ cellphones erupted with rings and dings.
Those weren’t the only disruptions or distractions in her classes. Some of her students would tune into a Netflix show or YouTube videos. Others played video games. All on their cellphones, heads bent down.
She also remembers teens who would ask to go to the bathroom during class, where they would meet a friend to record TikTok videos.