{"id":51557,"date":"2015-09-01T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=51557"},"modified":"2015-09-01T10:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:47:24","slug":"the-eight-minute-lecture-keeps-students-engaged-izenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/09\/01\/the-eight-minute-lecture-keeps-students-engaged-izenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eight-Minute Lecture Keeps Students Engaged [Izenberg]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Eight-Minute Lecture Keeps Students Engaged<\/strong><\/a> — from facultyfocus.com by Illysa Izenberg; with thanks to Ove Christensen<\/a> for mentioning this on his paper.li-based e-newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n

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Numerous studies have demonstrated that students retain little of our lectures, and research on determining the \u201caverage attention span,\u201d while varying, seems to congregate around eight to ten minutes (\u201cAttention Span Statistics,\u201d 2015), (Richardson, 2010). Research discussed in a 2009 Faculty Focus article by Maryellen Weimer questions the attention span research, while encouraging instructors to facilitate student focus.<\/p>\n

When I began teaching in 2006, I assumed that students could read anything I say. Therefore, my classes consisted of debates of, activities building on, and direct application of theories taught in the readings\u2014no lectures.<\/p>\n

But I noticed that students had difficulty understanding the content in a way that enabled accurate and deep application without some framing from me. In short, I needed to lecture\u2014at least a little. This is when I began the eight-minute lecture. If you\u2019re worried that eight minutes is too long, I discovered that when students experience many short lectures throughout the semester, they learn to focus in those bursts, in part because they know the lecture will be brief.<\/p>\n

How to implement the eight-minute lecture<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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\nThis reminds me of a graphic I did back in 2010, asking, “Is it getting harder to get through the gate?”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Also, this reminds me of the growing trend that’s occurring across the United States of implementing makerspaces and more active learning-based classrooms — i.e., creating collaborative, participatory learning environments.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Eight-Minute Lecture Keeps Students Engaged — from facultyfocus.com by Illysa Izenberg; with thanks to Ove Christensen for mentioning this on his paper.li-based e-newsletter Excerpt: Numerous studies have demonstrated that students retain little of our lectures, and research on determining the \u201caverage attention span,\u201d while varying, seems to congregate around eight to ten minutes (\u201cAttention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,394,141,71,173,66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-attention","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-faculty-staff","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51560,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51557\/revisions\/51560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}