Why a leading professor of new media just banned technology use in class - The Washingt... - 0 views
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Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.
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I’ve stopped thinking of students as people who simply make choices about whether to pay attention, and started thinking of them as people trying to pay attention but having to compete with various influences, the largest of which is their own propensity towards involuntary and emotional reaction.
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Professors are at least as bad at estimating how interesting we are as the students are at estimating their ability to focus.
