Keeping Students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher\'s biggest problems.
Keeping Students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher\'s biggest problems.
In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students\' attention.
We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information.
Classrooms are designed to force Students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction.
Lang argues that this solution obscures a deeper problem: how we teach is often at odds with how Students learn.
But acclaimed educator James M.
The logical response is to ban electronics in class.
Why is it so hard to get Students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students\' ability to focus.
Keeping Students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher\'s biggest problems.
Brimming with ideas and grounded in new research, Distracted offers an innovative plan for the most important lesson of all: how to learn.
In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students\' attention.
We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information.
Classrooms are designed to force Students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction.
Lang argues that this solution obscures a deeper problem: how we teach is often at odds with how Students learn.
But acclaimed educator James M.
The logical response is to ban electronics in class.
Why is it so hard to get Students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students\' ability to focus.
Keeping Students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions -- which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher\'s biggest problems