Yesterday morning during my day job, I was walking around my classroom to monitor a weekly retrieval practice task when I noticed a kid who was doing his best to fool me into believing he was actually doing work.
It’s a game I was very familiar with as a student myself: he was staring downward at his blank paper while pretending to write by moving his pen somewhat arbitrarily with the tip hovering just high enough not to actually make a mark. I stopped next to him just to watch him for a minutes before asking him how he was doing.