Teaching Techniques to Reduce Sound Problems 6. Where to call and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. I've taken some heat for headphone bashing. But I'm diggin' in gang and most of you are agreeing. Hang on Sloopy .
Headphones create a disconnect between student to student and student to teacher.
Yes, kids can hear you, but they don't listen to you that well. The sound in the headphones is much more interesting and immediate. They tune you out to a large degree. It is also rather impractical to ask everyone to pause their program and take off their headphones so you can talk with them. Good teachers like to discuss things 'on the fly' as they occur.