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It seems to me that Milobo’s Musings on Managing the Modern Classroom could just as well be generalized to Managing the Modern Attention Span.
I don’t think I’m all alone in sometimes finding the challenges of maintaining a lifestyle of lifelong learning — particularly in a seemingly increasingly dumbed down corporate workplace — every bit as challenging as any iPod-implanted tween might find memorizing the quadratic formula for the first time. From Milobo:
… we talked about what used to distract students from their work: Comics tucked inside a binder, notes from friends, listening to music, and more. We then talked about the new distractions that come with a laptop like playing games or surfing shopping websites. We asked teachers, “How did you manage these distractions before and will the same strategies work now?” For the most part, they found that most issues could be resolved using the same strategies they were already using …
