The second meeting of the reading group was held on April 15th on Zoom at 12:45 p.m.

We continued our discussion of Part I  of the book and began to review Part II.
We talked about the use of a concentration exercise to have students focus by viewing the same photograph, painting or document at various points in time during the semester. The point of the activity is for them to see how their experiences change their perspective on the focus object.

We also discussed apps that can be used for communicating with students that are more visual and more intuitive than BB. Lang’s research indicates that attention has a very strong social component and if he want to have less distracted students, we must find way to get their attention.  So communication turns out to be a key factor in reducing distraction. We have to work on capturing student’s attention, rather than focusing on eliminating distraction.

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