{"id":101,"date":"2006-04-08T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T09:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:08","slug":"why-cant-you-pay-attention-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t you pay attention anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2102-1022_3-5637632.html?tag=st.util.print\">This interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drhallowell.com\/\">Dr. Edward Hallowell <\/a>hits home on a number of levels, first because I&#8217;m the king of multitasking for better and, more often, for worse. Second, because it&#8217;s an issue we deal with in the classroom all the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStudents today &#8212; and this could simply be my misperceptions of some sort of pre-Internet golden age, when <em>I<\/em> went to school (haven&#8217;t we all heard that one before?) &#8212; seem to have a harder time getting big chunks of reading done for our classes, or wrapping their minds around some of the big theoretical concepts we discuss in our core &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/086\">Critical Approaches to Literature<\/a>&#8221; course here at UVM. Did I complain as much about having to read large novels or difficult works of literary theory? Probably&#8230; but I think that our attention spans (mine too) have changed significantly over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This interview with Dr. Edward Hallowell hits home on a number of levels, first because I&#8217;m the king of multitasking for better and, more often, for worse. Second, because it&#8217;s an issue we deal with in the classroom all the time. Students today &#8212; and this could simply be my misperceptions of some sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices","category-teaching-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}