I think that we can all admit, especially now, to being easily distracted.

This especially is relevant when it comes to trying to teach and keep students engaged.

Student attention is the focus on the just released new book Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About it, from author and educator, James Lang.

I’m looking forward to delving more into this book since I’m sure there will be relevant insights about how to engage online students who have so much noise all around them constantly. We need to be able to cut through that in the right ways with the right information in right places. The idea of cultivating attention versus removing distractions feel like such a positive ethos and seems like it would be much more effective. Also, I love that there is a social and community aspect to Lang’s advice here. Getting peer engagement is valuable for so many reasons, so I look forward to seeing what is explored here. I’ve definitely been geeking out lately about the different platforms out there for digital student engagement so this book will resonate for me on that level as well.

You can look forward to more content from me around this book, including a podcast interview with the author in the near future.

Make sure to get your copy now so you’re up to speed on this important topic and let me know what you think of it!