Comment by prismatix

The funny thing is that this article makes the author sound like the "lazy" one here. They're completely engulfed in their own experience with no ability to put themselves in a student's shoes.

Students ask for lecture slides and that bothers you? Pare down your slides so the content is rendered useless unless they come to class.

Attendance is down? Mark attendance with a simple, 1-question quiz every lecture that students need to be in class to access (QR code, iClicker, etc.). Make it count towards a whole grade-letter percentage of your grade.

Students leaving to "use phones" during class? Students can take classes back to back. Sometimes with almost no break in between (unless you consider racing across campus from one class to the next a break). It's not easy to switch subjects like that and meaningfully contribute to both spaces.