Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift - 0 views
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igital classroom tools like computers, tablets and smartphones offer exciting opportunities to deepen learning through creativity, collaboration and connection, but those very devices can also be distracting to students. Similarly, parents complain that when students are required to complete homework assignments online, it’s a challenge for students to remain on task. The ubiquity of digital technology in all realms of life isn’t going away, but if students don’t learn how to concentrate and shut out distractions, research shows they’ll have a much harder time succeeding in almost every area.
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we have more distractions than ever before, we have to be more focused on cultivating the skills of attention,” said Daniel Goleman, a psychologist and author of Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
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Children I’m particularly worried about because the brain is the last organ of the body to become anatomically mature.
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If young students don’t build up the neural circuitry that focused attention requires, they could have
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“The circuitry for paying attention is identical for the circuits for managing distressing emotion,” Goleman said. The
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affect kids better they’ll never learn the attention skills they’ll need to succeed in the long term.
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the idea of multitasking is a myth, Goleman said. When people say they’re “multitasking,” what they are really doing is something called “continuous partial attention,”
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as a student switches back and forth between homework and streaming through text messages, their ability to focus on either task erodes.
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children has the attentional capacities that other generations had naturally before the distractions of digital devices.