You stand at the front of the classroom in the thick choking silence as students avoid eye contact.
You open the floor up for participation and it seems every student finds a fascination with their monitors or the opposite-facing wall.
Your eyes and their eyes are opposite magnetic fields repelling each other with force unheard of in any scientific field.
You think of how to save this tutorial...
Rephrase the question while making lots of noise so they can't ignore you
Pick one student and make severe eye contact until they response
Skip this question and tell the class to smarten up
Explain the question with examples... They probably just didn't understand it right? Right?!