Helping Students Focus in a World on Fire: Using the Science of Keeping Attention to Improve Our Teaching in a Distracting Year and Beyond
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Description
2020 has heightened instructors’ awareness of distractions in educational environments. While keeping the attention of one’s audience has always been a challenge, our students are more distracted than ever as everyone deals with anxieties caused by learning in new formats, societal and environmental stressors, and a constant influx of information via various technologies. Regardless of the times, it is important that instructors in all settings be able to harness evidence-based research on how to earn our students’ attention. This program will introduce the science behind attention and distraction and offer attendees evidence-based examples of how to help keep their audience focused and engaged.
Publication Date
3-18-2021
Recommended Citation
Drake, Alyson; Parker, Christine H.; and Mart-Rice, Jennifer, "Helping Students Focus in a World on Fire: Using the Science of Keeping Attention to Improve Our Teaching in a Distracting Year and Beyond" (2021). SEAALL 2021 Annual Conference. 5.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/seaall2021/5