Less Focused Than They Think — Why Attention Has to Be Taught
By Tricia Taylor Recently, a teacher told me her students were adamant they could learn in the midst of distraction — Netflix on while studying science, texting while writing an essay. Young people, they said, have adapted. They can multitask. They even convinced the teacher. When I heard this, I disagreed. Human brains have evolved over thousands of generations, not one or two. But it prompted me to dig a little deeper into the research on attention. It turns out I wasn't co
Tricia Taylor
