Student attention spans are short these days, but yours doesn't have to be. Take it into your own hands to strengthen your focus and improve academically.
How to Rebuild an Attention SpanFoster, Douglas
Attention Span 101 First off, stop blaming technology. It’s not your phone’s fault; it’s your brain’s fault. Tech just makes it worse. Our brains are designed to always be seeking new information. In fact, the same system in your grey matter that keeps you on the lookout for food...
6 Tips on How to Work Through Your Selective Attention Span According to Dr. Gemma Biggs, a psychology lecturer at the UK’s Open University, the idea of an “average attention span”means very little. Our attention spans are task dependent. We’ll give our all to a task we find engagin...
[B] I do not mean this to be one of those technophobic rants insulting the internet for wiring our brains to give us the nervous attention span of Donald Trump on Twitter or misspelling about how we have to log off and smell the flowers. Those worries about new technologies have existed...
So, naturally, you need to know your reader. Rough age? General interests? Loves? Hates? Attention span? When in doubt, look in the mirror. The surest way to please your reader is to please yourself. Write what you would want to read and trust there is a broad readership out there th...
All of these mental aspects of martial arts training work together to improve our children’s attention span. 2)MeditationCalms The Brain Meditation before classes helps clear kids’ minds, allowing them to fully focus during class. Kids today live in a constant state of fast-paced, changing en...
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a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, who studies how digital media affects our lives. In her book “Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity,” Mark explains how decades of research have tracked the decline of the...
Why attention span is dropping The market has priced our attention by competing in an “attention economy” that’s influencing the internet, social networks and our lifestyles, according to D. Graham Burnett, the founder and director of a nonprofit dedicated to attention activism, the Institute...