“Teaching Distracted Minds: Old Challenges, New Contexts”

Faculty frequently express concerns about the distractions and disengagement of students, but the real focus should be on how to help students achieve attention. These sessions draw upon scholarship from history, neuroscience and education to argue that distractions are endemic to the human condition and can’t be walled out of the physical classroom or online course. Presented by James Lang, former professor of English and director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University.  Dr. Lang’s talk will be followed by a reception. Register by 5 p.m. Friday, March 17.