Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It

Lang, James M.

ISBN 10: 1541699807 / ISBN 13: 9781541699809

Published by Basic Books, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1541699807
• ISBN 13: 9781541699809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: like_new

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Synopsis

Keeping students focused can be difficult in a world filled with distractions—which is why a renowned educator created a scientific solution to one of every teacher's biggest problems.

Why is it so hard to get students to pay attention? Conventional wisdom blames iPhones, insisting that access to technology has ruined students' ability to focus. The logical response is to ban electronics in class.

But acclaimed educator James M. 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. We learn best when able to actively seek and synthesize new information.

In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention.

Brimming with ideas and grounded in new research, Distracted offers an innovative plan for the most important lesson of all: how to learn.

About the Author

James M. Lang is an education writer and a former professor of English and director of the D'Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University. He is the author of three previous books on higher education teaching and learning: Small Teaching, Cheating Lessons, and On Course. He is also a longtime monthly columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts.