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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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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Citizen science allows the common public to participate in important scientific studies, partnering with scientists and helping them with work crucial to the enhancement of human knowledge. It allows participants right from young children to retirees to participate in important scientific work.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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Many struggle to actively pay attention. It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. They are aware of mis- and disinformation, the fact that social media is designed to be attention-grabbing, and that not all sources are reliable.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. They are aware of mis- and disinformation, the fact that social media is designed to be attention-grabbing, and that not all sources are reliable.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

Many struggle to actively pay attention. It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.