How to minimize digital classroom distractions

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

One thing for sure...

...no more sage on the stage!

By the time you go from student to student checking and disarming their BYODs (bring your own devices)...

...and go back to the beginning and start all over again...

...the bell will ring with no lecture today!

The only problem now...

...developing those "lively group activities"...

...because, as we all know from personal experience, when "the activity is engaging and challenging, there is an authentic audience, and prescribed time limits, students won’t mess around."

Yes, there is a song for that: