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10 Reasons Your Child Can’t Concentrate In School (That Aren’t ADD)
Attention span is when a student gives attention to a lesson or designated task. This is important for students to have as they can focus more and learn more if they have long attention spans. If they get distracted too often they might end up getting low grades. Some reasons why students have a hard time paying attention are lack of motivation, too many distractions (such as social media or games), disorganization, or not getting proper sleep or nutrition. Long attention spans are mostly in older students than in younger ones. Older students focus more and give more attention unlike younger students that can easily get distracted.
10 Reasons Your Child Can’t Concentrate In School (That Aren’t ADD)
Ways to prevent this from happening is challenging your child for them to have a motive in studying properly and efforting on things they do. It is also good to keep distractions aways at school hours to make sure they give all their attention to studying. Make sure they get enough rest and have their meals at the right time. Help them in the simplest ways to be organized with school work and projects.
The students attention span has been a big problem of teachers and parents even before Covid- 19 started. Learners attention span starts to wane from 10-20 minutes during discussions. Neuropsychologist said that our brain is not designed to learn from screen but it is designed to learn from the environment and human interaction. There are 2 strategies that people have provided that may help the teachers to gain the students attention span, these are “Active Learning” and “Active Listening”. Active Learning is a broad range of teaching that engage students to participate during their class time. Active Listening is the process of listening attentively while discussions and reflecting back what the teacher said. When students practice these two strategies this means they give their full attention on the class.
https://www.acetutoring.com/blogs/2020/9/17/battling-against-student-attention-span-in-online-learning
It is natural for a student’s attention span to vary according to their mood, motivation, health, and other factors. A typical student’s attention span is about 10-15 minutes long, yet most of the classes last for 30 minutes or an hour. In performing a online class it is hard to focus in all of your students especially in virtual environment. One way to ensure that the students are learning is to make the class short as possible so that the students won’t get overwhelmed with lots of information and ending up loosing their attention completely.
https://pronto.io/student-attention-span-capture-maintain/
Friedman, A. (2021, November 5). Definition of Online Education. The Classroom | Empowering Students in Their College Journey.
https://www.theclassroom.com/definition-online-education-6600628.html
Online classrooms are atypical classes in which the teacher and students communicate via online apps. Asynchronous learning occurs when teachers or professors merely provide work or upload a lecture for students to watch on their own. Synchronous learning is defined as being present on screen as the class begins. Students in this nontraditional manner of going to school do the same thing they do in school every day, but from the comfort of their own homes. With the advancement of technology, online learning may develop, and it has numerous advantages for both learners and educators.
The rise of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. (2021, May 20). World Economic Forum.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/coronavirus-education-global-covid19-online-digital-learning/
Because of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, many schools have switched to virtual learning in order to keep kids and staff safe. Many people have been impacted by this abrupt transition, and some believe it is here to stay. Of course, some people would object to the fact that online learning is going to stay even after the pandemic. Online learning was an option, as well as a decision to keep students’ education going. Education is an important aspect of our lives. Many schools help students who do not have access to technology or devices in adjusting to this new manner of learning.
del Nunzio, M. R. (2015, December 4). Why is our generations attention span so short? | SiOWfa15: Science in Our World: Certainty and Controversy. Sites at Penn State.
Many factors influence our attention span, and one of them, according to the citation above, is social media. It has had such an impact on humans that the average human attention span has decreased from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8 seconds in 2013. The length of a person’s attention span is determined by their age, the work at hand, and the environment in which they find themselves. According to the study, social media and technology are the cause for our reduced attention span.
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/advan.00109.2016
APA
Bradbury, N. A. (2016). Attention span during lectures: 8 seconds, 10 minutes, or more?. Advances in physiology education, 40(4), 509-513.
MLA
Bradbury, Neil A. “Attention span during lectures: 8 seconds, 10 minutes, or more?.” Advances in physiology education 40.4 (2016): 509-513.
Every person has different attention spans; it could be seconds, minutes, or hours.
Right now attention span of people are diminishing because the technique for lecturing nowadays
isn’t that effective anymore, even though people gives attention to lectures it is said that it has become
so low to the point of 10 to 15 minutes, it is also said that notes taken decrease during the course of a lecture
and sadly note taking also isn’t effective in measuring the attention span of a person at all.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10888438.2018.1472266
APA
van den Boer, M., & de Jong, P. F. (2018). Stability of visual attention span performance and its relation with reading over time. Scientific Studies of Reading, 22(5), 434-441.
MLA
van den Boer, Madelon, and Peter F. de Jong. “Stability of visual attention span performance and its relation with reading over time.” Scientific Studies of Reading 22.5 (2018): 434-441.
A person’s visual attention span is the amount of things you see that you can process and retain in your mind, this also sees how you read
or how good you do it and this also sees your ability to hear words, how you handle sounds in a language. this study has been done in grade
3 and 4 tasks were done to measure their VAS (Visual Attention Span). In conclusion, the VAS of grade 3 and 4 were stable over time which also
measured the reading ability (concurrently and longitudinally). But the conclusion doesnt do any support for the visual attention span relating
to reading performance.
The findings suggest that students’ attention spans may be increased by interactivity, as measured by the average online video lecture viewing completion percentage before and after interactivity. Practitioner Recommendations: Adding interactivity to online video lectures and limiting their length is expected to improve learners’ attention span. As a result, it’s critical to investigate how adding interactivity to online video lectures affects students’ attention spans. The impact of adding interactivity to online video lectures on students’ attention span is investigated in this study. Based on quantitative empirical research, the paper offers valuable insights into incorporating interactive elements in online videos and the impact of video length.
https://www.learntechlib.org/p/182130/
Self-directed e-learning (SDEL) refers to electronic learning environments in which no peers or instructors are present on a regular basis.The perceived quality of instruction, learning and motivation to begin were the best predictors of motivation during SDEL. The best predictor of positive change in motivation during e-learning was motivation during SDEL, which in turn predicted learner satisfaction with SDEL. The best predictors of motivation to begin SDEL, according to stepwise regression analysis, were perceived relevance, reported technology competence, and age.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2190/EC.44.1.a
Student attention span in an online class is deteriorating. Microsoft made a study way back in 2015 the average attention span has dropped from 33% from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.The abrupt explosion of the internet caused the decline of a person’s ability to focus. In addition, Microsoft reported a positive effect. They said the average person’s ability to multitask has dramatically progressed since the rise of the mobile age.
https://www.academyofmine.com/how-your-students-attention-span-affects-your-elearning-platform/
A person’s attention span is getting smaller, but it is basically a consequence of progression. The current student assumes to engage information swiftly and in a brief format compared to before.
https://elearningindustry.com/why-elearning-is-beneficial-shrinking-attention-spans
Fighting Covid and quarantines has been our new reality this school year, thus we rely on Zoom to attend sessions when we are unable to go in person. For most students, Zoom is merely an opportunity to start bad habits like sleeping, wearing non-uniform clothing, and pulling out your phone during class. The disadvantage of Zoom is that it is cumbersome, especially when you need to communicate. For spontaneous remarks, you must now unmute yourself and cross your fingers that you don’t start talking at the same time as someone else. When children are imprisoned in their rooms all day, it is all too easy for them to acquire undesirable habits, spontaneous communication is discouraged, and the whole result may be distressing for both parents and children.
Teachers need to find new ways to keep student’s attention span and concentration at the highest level possible. Stop seeing them as principles that need to be taught and start considering them skills to be trained and encouraged. Students can take control of their own learning process, not only in school but in every aspect of their lives.
They found that a trending hashtag that reached the top 50 of popularity in 2013 remained on this list for a maximum of 17.5 hours, for 2016, this range had dropped to 11.9 hours. Students who take online courses are freer to multitask, a study has shown. This is because the teacher acts as an anchor for the students’ attention span and concentration.
The excess of content and the decreasing attention span in students