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Every day in class, faculty members wage a constant battle with cellphones and laptops for the attention of students. In this series, James M. Lang explores the impasse over how to cope with those unwanted digital distractions.
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AdviceHow Can We Convince Students That Easier Doesn’t Always Mean Better?
Apps are training all of us to expect ease in life. But cognitive research shows that the hardest study habits are the most effective. -
Advice
The Distracted Classroom: Transparency, Autonomy, and Pedagogy
When cellphones distract students from engaging work in class, the users can regulate themselves far more effectively than we can. -
On Course
The Distracted Classroom: Do Tech Fasts Work?
A look at solutions in the latest column of our series on teaching and digital disturbances. -
The Distracted Classroom: Is It Getting Worse?
Today’s devices do have a more negative effect on students’ attention span than did new technologies of the past. -
On Course
The Distracted Classroom
New research may help us break the impasse over how to cope with digital diversions in the classroom.
