Managing the flow of attention
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The document discusses strategies for teaching effectively in a distracting environment, emphasizing the importance of managing attention through arousal levels and minimizing distractions. It highlights the need for clarity in instruction, the myth of multitasking, and the benefits of using novel stimuli and background music to enhance learning. Key insights from experts such as John Medina and Eric Jensen are referenced to support these strategies.
Managing the flow of attention
- 1. Teaching in the Age of Distraction : Managing the Flow of Attention Presented by Willy Wood
- 4. Distracted Drivers respond one and a half seconds slower
- 8. Arousal
- 9. Medium Arousal Level is Best
- 10. Ways to Raise Arousal • Acknowledgements • Affirmations • Celebrations • Music • Movement • Choices
- 12. “The human brain—like the brains of all vertebrates—is hardwired to immediately notice sudden movement in our field of vision. We not only notice, we are compelled to look. When our evolutionary predecessors gathered on the African savanna three million years ago and the leaves next to them moved, the ones who didn’t look are not our ancestors.” -Al Gore
- 15. Will it eat me? Can I eat it?
- 18. Novelty
- 19. Same old, Same old Too weird for understanding More Familiar Novel Less Familiar Recognizable, but not routine
- 20. Routine
- 23. “You can have your students’ Attention or they can be making meaning, but never both at the same time.” -Eric Jensen
- 30. “Multi-tasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.” -John Medina
- 31. “…A person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.” -John Medina
- 33. One At a Time
- 34. See Me
- 35. Background Music
- 36. Characteristics of Background Music: Behind Individual Work • Instrumental only • 60 to 80 beats per minute • Unfamiliar • Repetitive • Very low volume • Genre not important
- 37. Characteristics of Background Music: Behind Small Group Discussions • Instrumental only • 80 to 100 beats per minute • Medium volume • Genre not important
- 40. Thank you for your kind attention!