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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

Edsurge

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. We talked about his tips for holding attention during online classes, his thoughts on banning devices in the classroom and how he got into writing about teaching in the first place.

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

Scholarly Teacher

In learner-centered pedagogical practices, the focus and attention is on learning what and how the student is learning (Weimer, 2013). Currently, I am using cogen in a graduate level research methods course. In these spaces, the teacher is not the only one with knowledge.

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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

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One that hits a sweet spot, blending the rigor of traditional research methods with the convenience of modern technology. Or at least make more evident which skills their lectures, assignments and projects impart. He thinks a new system is needed. A skills engine. Not that college professors are all eager to try this.

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

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I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D. I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Wait, what? I spoke up.

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