The Attention Classroom: How to Teach in an Age of Distraction - Softcover

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In a world engineered to steal your focus, this book shows you how to win it back-period after period, learner by learner. It is a field guide to designing lessons, rooms and routines that make concentration feel natural, not forced, turning noise into momentum and anxiety into progress. If you have ever wondered why your smartest plans wobble the moment phones appear, or how to make curiosity outcompete the feed, you are in the right place. You will learn practical moves drawn from classroom attention, student engagement strategies, and focus in the classroom that you can try tomorrow and refine all year. Discover how to use gamification in education without gimmicks, apply cognitive load theory teachers can actually plan with, and build formative assessment strategies that act like a steering wheel, not a scorecard. You will set up fair phone norms using proven phone policy schools patterns, swap cramming for retrieval practice classroom, and run simple "two-week experiments" to iterate what works. Written for teachers, coaches, heads of department and anyone who leads learning, it balances evidence with clarity, offering scripts, templates and protocols that protect dignity while raising rigour. If you are ready for digital detox for students that respects reality rather than pretending the internet doesn't exist, and an approach grounded in the attention economy education rather than slogans, this is your map. - Design lesson rhythms that hold attention without theatrics - Replace busywork with visible progress learners can feel - Build a culture where attention is a shared contract-and everyone keeps it

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