{"id":16897,"date":"2021-06-02T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=16897"},"modified":"2021-06-02T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:20:00","slug":"icymi-distracted-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/icymi-distracted-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Distracted Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wocintechchat\/25388729644\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/1486\/25388729644_5428687c32_b.jpg?resize=612%2C324&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"African American using laptop and mobile phone at the same time\" width=\"612\" height=\"324\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>James M. Lang has written a series of articles for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/\">Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> on distraction and attention in higher education. The articles draw from his new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesmlang.com\/books\">Distracted: Why Students Can\u2019t Focus and What You Can Do About It<\/a>.  In his book he makes a compelling argument that rather than thinking about how to ban distractions you should focus on creating learning environments that support and sustain attention. If this has piqued your interest, you can find his series of articles on distracted minds at these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/distracted-minds-why-your-students-cant-focus\">Distracted Minds: Why Your Students Can\u2019t Focus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/distracted-minds-3-ways-to-get-their-attention-in-class\">Distracted Minds: 3 Ways to Get Their Attention in Class<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/distracted-minds-the-role-of-tempo-in-good-teaching\">Distracted Minds: The Role of Tempo in Good Teaching<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/distracted-minds-why-you-should-teach-like-a-poet\">Distracted Minds: Why You Should Teach Like a Poet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/distracted-minds-your-classroom-can-be-a-retreat-in-dark-times\">Distracted Minds: Your Classroom Can Be a Retreat in Dark Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wocintechchat\/25388729644\/\">#WOCinTech Chat<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James M. Lang has written a series of articles for the Chronicle of Higher Education on distraction and attention in higher education. The articles draw from his new book, Distracted: Why Students Can\u2019t Focus and What You Can Do About It. In his book he makes a compelling argument that rather than thinking about how <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/icymi-distracted-minds\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"ICYMI: Distracted Minds\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[101],"class_list":{"0":"post-16897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-faculty-development","7":"category-teaching","8":"tag-digital-distraction","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-4ox","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16138,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/distracted-minds\/","url_meta":{"origin":16897,"position":0},"title":"Distracted Minds","author":"Janice Florent","date":"January 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"James M. 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