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16This is so passive-aggressive. Please do not do that. It's better to tell them: "Excuse me, but your chit-chat is disturbing the class," than to try to put a shame on them. They are adults, for Pete's sake.– yo'Commented Oct 23, 2015 at 16:57
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8@qsp Questions are a good thing, but it doesn't mean that every question is a good thing. Of course, questions used to waken the class up, get a feedback on whether your lecture is clear etc. -- that's fine. But here, you obviously ask the question only to embarrass the chatting people.– yo'Commented Oct 23, 2015 at 17:25
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9By doing this, you also run the risk of the student making the class laugh by giving a delightfully stupid answer. I've been that student more than a few times.– MdevCommented Oct 23, 2015 at 18:15
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4As an aside, I would also add that this doesn't work for students who don't appear to be paying attention, but aren't talking. I'm remembering myself from high school here. I had one math teacher (pre-Calculus) who was just so absolutely awful that I would actually know less about the material if I paid attention to her, so I didn't. Occasionally, she'd attempt to bring attention to this by asking me the answer to a question she'd been working on for the last 10 minutes. After a couple of times of me responding with the correct answer without even looking up, she stopped doing that. :)– reirabCommented Oct 24, 2015 at 18:35
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3On the positive side, I did set several high scores on the games I was playing on my graphing calculator in that class.– reirabCommented Oct 24, 2015 at 18:38
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