You won’t believe how this college prof clickbaited students. Or what happened next.

Colby College assistant professor Laura Seay does not want us to “take this too seriously.” “I was just goofing around,” she insisted in an interview with The Washington Post. (Seay is a contributor to The Post’s Monkey Cage blog.)

Yet as anyone who teaches at a college knows, it’s hard to get the attention of students these days. Indeed, they have given up on just “getting their attention.”

Now you have to “engage students,” Seay said.

Students.

With their eyes fixed on smartphones and their communication skills limited to 140 characters, hashtags, emoji and txt spk, is it any wonder why her course in African government and politics, at first glance, might not immediately crank their engines?

Besides, Seay admits, she was procrastinating. Seay had not finished her syllabus and the students were about to descend on the campus.

Suddenly it occurred to her.

Clickbait.

With time running out Monday, she began, at first tentatively:

But then, emboldened, she continued.

“These four factors might explain development outcomes in South Sudan…if you squint & ignore these ten other papers.”

— Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) September 5, 2016

   And yes, a hashtag was born.

“These 10 Million People Explain Why Belgian Colonization Was Literally The Worst.” #ClickbaitSyllabus — Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) September 5, 2016

Which did not go unnoticed.

Plato: “You’ll never believe what reality is.” Descartes: “How I lost 180lbs just by thinking!” Nietzsche: “God is WHAT?”#ClickbaitSyllabus — Nolen Gertz (@ethicistforhire) September 5, 2016

Man asked to electrocute stranger by supposed researcher. You’ll never believe how far he goes #ClickbaitSyllabus

— Timothy Jesurun (@Dr_J_Psych) September 5, 2016

And she realized she was on to something.