[tikhonj]

> I’m a professor now and allow students particular freedoms along these lines, like wearing headphones or skipping lecture for the recorded one. I recently had a student who was able to participate more and keep up with the lecture much better by looking down and slowly maintaining a game on his phone.

Man, I do the same thing. Zoom meetings have been great for this because I can do that to help me pay attention while still looking like I'm paying attention for the other person on the call. It's funny because it first almost felt like deception, but really it's the opposite: I'm paying more attention than if I weren't doing anything else and worrying about my body language instead...