My last blog post - on the Etiquette for Tweeting at Conferences - got quite a bit of attention, and a number of comments. One person who commented is Dr Andrew Flaus ( @andrewflaus ) who sent me a long email including a discussion on etiquette for students in lectures. I invited him to contribute a blog post on the topic. Crayons My wife is an early childhood teacher so people sometimes ask her what she teaches to 3-4 year olds: “Everything”. Children who are new to the school environment start by learning etiquette of the classroom: How to wait in turn to answer, how to respect the efforts of others, how to share crayons. The recent post about twitter at conferences reminded me how fresh we and our students are to the use of technology in our lecture theatres. Whether they are “digital natives” or not, most students reflexively use smartphone technology for a variety of activities. If a student can see or hear something they have the technology to record it in their hand. They are ...