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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

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Can you talk about some of your research methods? Lang: There were two strains of research I conducted for the book. One of them was the very traditional strain of reading research on attention, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and all that stuff.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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By 2014, the university’s leaders had purchased iPads for every undergraduate student and moved toward placing readings and multimedia materials from core courses on iTunes U, the company’s long-running platform for educational materials, and encouraging professors to flip their classrooms. “I

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

Scholarly Teacher

This can be done through discussion, readings about cogenerative dialogues in the college or graduate school setting, or both. Currently, I am using cogen in a graduate level research methods course. They can be done as part of the course for credit or on a volunteer basis.

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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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