College teachers are often wont to crab about their students, and a frequent theme of such crabbing is the apparent lack of interest amongst students towards the business of learning itself. Nothing thrills a teacher like a hungry student; nothing appalls a teacher like the Laodicean pupil, who says, “I am rich, and increased with…
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Attention, Multitasking, and the What a Classroom is For
Scholars Turn their Attention to Attention by David Glenn I’ll admit that, sometimes, I like to play the Neil Postman conservative. I could point to students in nearly every class that I’ve ever taught and attribute their lack of attention, their cynicism towards pursuits of truth, and all sorts of other twenty-first-century vices to the…