{"id":35474,"date":"2012-12-17T12:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=35474"},"modified":"2012-12-17T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:49:08","slug":"reflections-on-driven-to-distraction-how-to-help-wired-students-learn-to-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/12\/17\/reflections-on-driven-to-distraction-how-to-help-wired-students-learn-to-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Driven to distraction: How to help wired students learn to focus&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/2012\/11\/13\/driven-to-distraction-how-to-help-wired-students-learn-to-focus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Driven to distraction: How to help wired students learn to focus<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from eschoolnews.com by Larry Rosen<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A recent Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project report surveyed 2,462 middle and high school Advanced Placement and national writing project teachers and concluded that: \u201cOverwhelming majorities agree with the assertions that today\u2019s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans, and today\u2019s students are too \u2018plugged in\u2019 and need more time away from their digital technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Two-thirds of the respondents agree with the notion that today\u2019s digital technologies do more to distract students than to help them academically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mind you, we are talking about teachers who typically teach the best and brightest students and not those who we would generally think of as highly distractible.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6405 aligncenter\" alt=\"If attention can be visualized as a gate...is it getting harder to get through the gate?\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/is-it-getting-harder-to-get-through-the-gate1.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/is-it-getting-harder-to-get-through-the-gate1.jpg 593w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/is-it-getting-harder-to-get-through-the-gate1-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If I&#8217;m an educator or a trainer and I can&#8217;t get through the gate (i.e. get someone&#8217;s attention), I have zero chance of getting a piece of information into someone&#8217;s short-term memory\/working memory &#8212; and then ultimately into their long-term memory.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also, from my own experience&#8230;<br \/>\nEspecially in regards to information in a textual format, I know that I&#8217;ve grown increasingly impatient when someone doesn&#8217;t get to the point. <strong>When drinking (information) from the firehose, I seem to be almost forced into this type of situation\/perspective.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driven to distraction: How to help wired students learn to focus &#8212; from eschoolnews.com by Larry Rosen Excerpt: A recent Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project report surveyed 2,462 middle and high school Advanced Placement and national writing project teachers and concluded that: \u201cOverwhelming majorities agree with the assertions that today\u2019s digital technologies are creating [&hellip;]<\/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":[394,72,223,101,166,105],"tags":[761,620,606,596,685,621,623,184],"class_list":["post-35474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention","category-daniel-s-christian","category-learning-theories","category-psychology","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","tag-attention","tag-cognitive-psychology-computing","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-information-overload","tag-learning-theories","tag-psychology","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35474"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35584,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35474\/revisions\/35584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}