After analyzing the data produced by undergraduates who wore the glasses during
lectures, professor David Rosengrant concluded that it was not the case, as many
teachers believe, that students were most engaged for the first 15 minutes or so
of class, after which their attention gradually slacked off. Rather, he said,
student engagement ebbed and flowed over the course of the 70-minute lecture,
and spiked whenever the professor used humor, stood close to the student, or
talked about material that was not included in the Power Point presentation
projected on a screen at the front of the room. Rosengrant also determined that
cell phones and the web — especially Facebook — were the greatest obstacles to
maintaining students’ engagement in the classroom.
Janet Hale on 04 Mar 16"The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a specific course or program. In dictionaries, curriculum is often defined as the courses offered by a school, but it is rarely used in such a general sense in schools. Depending on how broadly educators define or employ the term, curriculum typically refers to the knowledge and skills students are expected to learn, which includes the learning standards or learning objectives they are expected to meet; the units and lessons that teachers teach; the assignments and projects given to students; the books, materials, videos, presentations, and readings used in a course; and the tests, assessments, and other methods used to evaluate student learning. An individual teacher's curriculum, for example, would be the specific learning standards, , lessons, assignments, and materials used to organize and teach a particular course."
