Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 11am – 12pm MDT
Join a Book Discussion where it's OK if you didn't read the book.Our next book choice is: Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It, by James Lang.Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames phones and personal devices, insisting that access to technology has ruined students’ ability to focus. James Lang argues that this solution obscures a deeper problem: how we teach is often at odds with how students learn. Classrooms are designed to force students into long periods of intense focus, but emerging science reveals that the brain is wired for distraction. In Distracted, Lang shares ideas about how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students’ attention.