Pay Attention!

After the accidental answer give away with the overhead on Monday I remembered something from my High school History 12 class. Every day in my History 12 class we had to copy down the overhead notes as our teacher was talking/ explaining the material. He would use a piece of paper to cover part of the notes so that we couldn't rush ahead and talk about the subject matter at the same time. To make sure we would pay attention to what he was talking about and what was on the overhead he would say or write something silly in the middle of the notes. Then after he was a couple lines past where the silly insertion was he would ask the class if they noticed or heard something that didn't seem quite right. More often then not we would look at our notes and because we were just mindless writing down what he was saying and or what was on the notes without actually really paying attention we would find some silly sentence in the middle of our notes. Those would wrote it would raise their hands and everyone would have a good laugh. Those who were among the few to notice as we were writing would keep to themselves and wait for him to reveal and see who hadn't been paying attention and instead only mindlessly copying. It made for a good class laugh.