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How To Connect With Digitally Distracted Students - Edudemic

How To Connect With Digitally Distracted Students - Edudemic | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
This infographic provides 10 suggestions on ways to connect with the "digitally distracted students." Below are a few of the suggestions, For more click through to the post.
* Encourage communication
* Use cooperative learning
* Utilize peer instruction
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Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn | MindShift

Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn | MindShift | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

...Cognitive scientists determined that people’s short-term memory is very limited – it can only process so much at once. A lot of the information presented in a typical lecture comes at students too fast and is quickly forgotten...So for reasons he can’t remember, Mazur told the students to discuss the question with each other.

“And something happened in my classroom which I had never seen before,” he says. “The entire classroom erupted in chaos. They were dying to explain it to one another and to talk about it.”

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