How Do You Teach Students Who Can’t Concentrate? |
Our education system has been undermined in numerous ways and among them is that many students have very poor attention spans. They can’t read books or concentrate on lectures. How are professors to react to that?
In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Adam Smith discusses this serious problem.
By “learn to code,” I certainly don’t mean we need to bring a bunch of new apps and devices into our classrooms to “upgrade our pedagogy.” That’s a lot of what broke us. We can talk about the demographic cliff and administrative bloat, but all that could go away tomorrow, and the deeper problem would still be there. I’m talking about the problem with the students. A few years ago, we read about “the elite college kids who can’t........