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"How long can you reasonably expect your students to pay attention during your lessons? Some psychologists claim the typical student’s attention span is about 10 to 15 minutes long, yet most university classes last 50 to 90 minutes. Students’ attention levels vary widely based on factors like motivation, emotion, enjoyment, and time of day."
Beth Dichter's insight:
What are the best methods of keeping our students engaged in the lessons we teach? This post explores this issue, and provides 15 suggestions at the end of techniques you may want to incorporate into your class. But first, it explores what science has to say on this issue. They begin by looking at what is known about the attention span of students, and suggest that this is disagreement on this issue. Is it 4- 5 minutes, 10 - 15 minutes...they note that there is not clarity on this issue. The next section looks at attention and active learning. It may come as no surprise that during active learning, such as demonstrations and questions, as opposed to lecturing. The post also looks at how technology impacts learning (click through to learn more) and then there are 15 tricks. Four are below. * Use props or visuals. * Write a challenging question on the board. * Divide target skills into manageable subskills. * Stress relevance and concreteness. 
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Mobile devices are ubiquitous in American high schools, and their use is harder to regulate than old-fashioned note passing. But here's why teachers should be paying closer attention. A look at the pros and cons of cell phones in the classroom...are they a benefit or a distraction? Can students learn when they are also sending out text messages?
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15 great tips for engaging student attention. Well worth a read.
Etude à lire!
Grande question pour les enseignants surtout maintenant avec les "distractions" qui se multiplient