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while multitasking may allow us to do many things, it does not allow us to do them well. The problem is, we really only have one main attentional channel, and adding another task onto the mental plate (even if it’s as seemingly negligible as texting) clogs up that channel so that you can’t do any of the tasks really well.
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Set aside one day per week upon which everyone will place their smartphones in a basket and learning will be entirely old school. This is a great time to do creative, collaborative projects, and to focus on tasks that require students to be present in a way digital devices just won’t allow for.
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Is there a way to embrace that unique and attractive distraction to create a learning opportunity? An avid texter, for example, might be invited to write an entire story via text, while gamers could create a script for their very own game.
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an exercise that engages them intuitively while allowing you as the teacher to impart fundamental lessons about argument and thesis construction, character development, descriptive writing, dialogue, and so forth. This can then be translated in a follow-up exercise into more traditional essay and fictional writing that a student will be required to master for the Common Core and other standards.
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Don’t Post Everything Online
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Engage students with projects that challenge them and give them creative autonomy.
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But the truth is, while multitasking may allow us to do many things, it does not allow us to do them well. The problem is, we really only have one main attentional channel, and adding another task onto the mental plate (even if it’s as seemingly negligible as texting) clogs up that channel so that you can’t do any of the tasks really well.
“But I heard what you said!” your students say, as they continue to text way. Even if that’s true, information heard is not necessarily information deeply embedded and synthesized with deeper knowledge. What’s more, what a student may perceive as excellent multitasking is often more like a quick switch between two tasks — which would be fine, except that they’re more than likely missing out on important details as their attention was momentarily turned to their phones.
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Another great strategy is to do your own version of a “digital Sabbath.” Set aside one day per week upon which everyone will place their smartphones in a basket and learning will be entirely old school. This is a great time to do creative, collaborative projects, and to focus on tasks that require students to be present in a way digital devices just won’t allow for. In this way, students will still gain some of the intended benefits of a technology ban, while also feeling the autonomy and individualization that this technology promotes.
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You’ve heard of learning styles, but have you heard of distraction styles? If this New York Times Article, Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction, is any indication, the exact manifestation each student’s digital distraction takes can vary widely. Social butterflies, for example, could easily spend their days texting and posting to social media, while other students are all about gaming.
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Keep in mind that some students may not have a favorite kind of digital distraction, and may instead turn to their phones as a means of tactile stimulation to engage a wandering mind. In that case, you might try swapping their phone for a pen and paper and encouraging them to doodle. No matter what approach you take, the takeaway here is that your solution to digital distraction should be as individualized as your approach to teaching.
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Engage students with projects that challenge them and give them creative autonomy. Use the great outdoors as your classroom for the day. Invite guest lecturers to mix things up. Create opportunities for hands-on learning. Teach via student-lead, discussion-based learning, rather than lecturing all day. With a little willingness to shake things up, you can be just as compelling as those devices.
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Jennifer LubkeIncludes ideas for busting the "myth of multitasking" and a link to an interesting YouTube video that tests users' ability to focus on more than one thing at a time.
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p a term the teacher used that they don’t understand, or Google image searching so they can translate a concept into their visual learning sty
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And it’s better still if you can make the experience multimedia — anything to keep their attention levels high.
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The brains of children and adolescents are dynamic, and digital devices appeal to their thinking style intuitively
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it’s good teaching that will determine whether or not technology in the classroom is an incredible force for individualization and engagement or simply a distraction.
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mbrace the future while keeping your core teaching principals in mind
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the takeaway here is that your solution to digital distraction should be as individualized as your approach to teaching.
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Within this debate, there’s only one thing that’s crystal clear: digital technology in the classroom is here to stay, whether it’s provided directly by the school or used surreptitiously by students on the sly. The question is not, “Should we allow digital devices in the classroom?”, it’s “Now that they’re here, how can we prevent digital devices from becoming a distraction?
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Rethink Smartphones Bans
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Sure, it can cut down on texting, Instagramming, and the oh-so-annoying mid-lecture phone call, but it seriously inhibits a student’s ability to self-customize the experience by, for example, looking up a term the teacher used that they don’t understand, or Google image searching so they can translate a concept into their visual learning style. What’s more, for “digital natives,” their smartphones feel like limbs, and to cut it off can cause anxiety that is in itself distracting.
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Instead, it’s again worth devoting a lesson plan to proper technology use in the classroom, both to educate students on the deeper science of attention and to create a culture of accountability and peer pressure around good use.
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Another great strategy is to do your own version of a “digital Sabbath.
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learning will be entirely old school. This is a great time to do creative, collaborative projects, and to focus on tasks that require students to be present in a way digital devices just won’t allow for. In this way, students will still gain some of the intended benefits of a technology ban, while also feeling the autonomy and individualization that this technology promotes.
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Of course, it’s even better if you can include photos in worksheets, as today’s digitally savvy students are becoming increasingly visual. And it’s better still if you can make the experience multimedia — anything to keep their attention levels high.
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have you heard of distraction styles
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Is there a way to embrace that unique and attractive distraction to create a learning opportunity? An avid texter, for example, might be invited to write an entire story via text, while gamers could create a script for their very own game
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hey can be used as a “bridge” exercise. That is, an exercise that engages them intuitively while allowing you as the teacher to impart fundamental lessons about argument and thesis construction, character development, descriptive writing, dialogue, and so forth. This can then be translated in a follow-up exercise into more traditional essay and fictional writing that a student will be required to master for the Common Core and other standards.
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the takeaway here is that your solution to digital distraction should be as individualized as your approach to teaching.
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5. Don’t Post Everything Online
Students may lobby hard to receive a copy of your lecture notes or presentation slides before class, but resist the urge to make these easily accessible. By all means, provide a skeleton for them to fill in, but students should have an incentive to pay attention in class, and having a copy of detailed lecture notes in front of them will remove all incentive, sending them back to their phones for something a little more engaging. Give them purpose in the classroom.
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No matter what solutions you implement in your classroom, remember that we are still in a relatively nascent era. We are all guinea pigs, and it’s up to us to determine what the new rules and best practices will be. So try out one technique, and try out another if the first one doesn’t work. Embrace the future while keeping your core teaching principals in mind. In the end, it’s good teaching that will determine whether or not technology in the classroom is an incredible force for individualization and engagement or simply a distraction.
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Lorri CarrollRT @lori_audade: 7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom http://t.co/lcq3hvJ0QS via @edudemic
7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom | Edudemic http://t.co/el2D83GuSe Great advice here! #isedchat -
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Latrea MorrowResearch article
distracted generation digital natives technology disconnect decline negative effect
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But the truth is, while multitasking may allow us to do many things, it does not allow us to do them well. The problem is, we really only have one main attentional channel, and adding another task onto the mental plate (even if it’s as seemingly negligible as texting) clogs up that channel so that you can’t do any of the tasks really well.
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Even if that’s true, information heard is not necessarily information deeply embedded and synthesized with deeper knowledge.
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You’ve heard of learning styles, but have you heard of distraction styles? If this New York Times Article, Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction, is any indication, the exact manifestation each student’s digital distraction takes can vary widely. Social butterflies, for example, could easily spend their days texting and posting to social media, while other students are all about gaming.
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No matter what approach you take, the takeaway here is that your solution to digital distraction should be as individualized as your approach to teaching.
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Engage students with projects that challenge them and give them creative autonomy.
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digital devices is that they provide instant gratification.
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teaching grit to ensure students also know how to dig down deep.
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In fact, if there’s any way students are going to learn to focus and control their impulses both on their devices and outside of them, grit is especially crucial and worth both lesson time, coaching and follow-up.
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potential pitfalls, like having their students become so habituated to stimulation that they can’t focus on lower-stimulation tasks, or becoming so keyed up they can no longer sleep.
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Greg PerryRT @syded06: 7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom http://t.co/eQl7CCXCWI
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Elizabeth LeBlancLoved this article, which talks about proactive ways to harness the good habits and strengths of the iGeneration to support the ones that can get in the way of learning. Rather than the cell phone ban or lab area lock-down that many schools do, I tend to see this as a learning/teaching opportunity as well. This one has some really good ideas for reframing the conversation for students and for teachers feeling 'stuck.'
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25 Nov 14
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Sheri Edwards7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom | @Edudemic http://t.co/ITT6MBHOlt
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Amy Lenord7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom via @Edudemic http://t.co/JsKn8pla0x #langchat @Edutopia What do you think? Ideas?
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Russell Lidgard7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom | Edudemic http://t.co/OOmXOJmMKq
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while multitasking may allow us to do many things, it does not allow us to do them well.
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most of your students will find the video above surprising, and will see firsthand why it’s so hard to concentrate on more than one thing at a time.
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because
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just break it up for your students on the page with bolded headers and bulleted lists
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write an entire story via text
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gamers could create a script
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should have an incentive to pay attention in class
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Give them purpose in the classroom
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Engage students with projects that challenge them and give them creative autonomy
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We are all guinea pigs, and it’s up to us to determine what the new rules and best practices will be.
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To educators who embrace new technologies wholeheartedly, digital devices are a powerful tool for creating an engaged and individualized educational experience. To those that are a little more hesitant, digital devices seem more like a quick route to Instagram and Facebook — that is, to distractions that interfere with the educational experience, rather than boosting it.
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digital technology in the classroom is here to stay, whether it’s provided directly by the school or used surreptitiously by students on the sly. The question is not, “Should we allow digital devices in the classroom?”, it’s “Now that they’re here, how can we prevent digital devices from becoming a distraction?”
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1. Destroy the Multitasking Myth
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2. Rethink Smartphones Bans
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3. Write How They Read
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4. Use Their Unique Distraction Styles to Spark Learning
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5. Don’t Post Everything Online
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6. Create Opportunities for Curiosity Outside the Digital Space
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7. Teach Grit
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Embrace the future while keeping your core teaching principals in mind. In the end, it’s good teaching that will determine whether or not technology in the classroom is an incredible force for individualization and engagement or simply a distraction.
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Doug Peterson7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom http://t.co/mQf6qMnY66
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it also impresses the urgency of teaching grit to ensure students also know how to dig down deep. In fact, if there’s any way students are going to learn to focus and control their impulses both on their devices and outside of them, grit is especially crucial and worth both lesson time, coaching and follow-up.
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Toby PriceHT dear pal “@jedipadmaster: 7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom #3 is very important http://t.co/uVYjQjHBdP” #edtech
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Todd MorganInteresting read - 7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom http://t.co/TSXqSbfs2O
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Steph PearsonInteresting read - 7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom http://t.co/TSXqSbfs2O
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Tyler Amidon7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom http://t.co/QXpqmDo6pS
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jgosnellGreat edudemic article about how to lessen digital distraction in the classroom.
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Jocko McKean7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom http://t.co/DFk3lgopFV pic.twitter.com/6TbplD8syK
— Ian Jukes (@ijukes) November 19, 2014
7 Ways to Deal With Digital Distractions in the Classroom
http://t.co/DFk3lgopFV http://t.co/6TbplD8syK
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