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In the digital age, getting students into classrooms is an increasingly challenging mission for university teachers, not to mention retaining their attention. 在这个数码时代，对于大学老师而言，让学生们来听课是项愈发艰巨的任务，更不用说让他们集中精力听讲了。 “It’s much harder to teach the post-90s generation,” said Chen Jixiu, a math professor at Fudan University. “They use smartphones and tablets to search for information, even during class. They get knowledge from a variety of sources, and consider it trivial to skip classes.” According to Chen, this phenomenon has forced teachers to adopt “odd tricks” for luring students to class. Here are some weird ideas picked up by 21st Century. 复旦大学数学系教授陈继秀（音译）表示：“给90后教课可谓难上加难，他们用手机和平板电脑来搜寻信息，甚至在课堂上也是如此。他们获取知识的渠道五花八门，在他们看来跷课只是件寻常小事。”陈教授指出，该现象致使老师们不得不采取些“怪招”吸引学生来上课。以下是《二十一世纪英文报》整理出的一些新奇点子。 Food for thought 食物激励 Rather than providing only moral encouragement, teachers at Wuhan University of Technology are offering tangible incentives to boost student attendance. 为了提高出勤率，武汉科技大学的老师们不只从精神上鼓励学生，更是采用物质激励法。 | 
