📚 Education Mar 18, 2026 · Brittany Aga, PsyD

Focus Interrupted: How to Keep Students Engaged When Attention is Scarce

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Most of today’s students have never known a world without technology, which significantly impacts their attention spans (“Digital Dementia: How Screens and Digital Devices Impact Memory” 2023). Microsoft found that attention spans in general have decreased from 12 seconds in 2000 to less than 8 seconds in 2013, which unfortunately for us as educators is shorter than that of a goldfish (McSpadden 2015). 



In addition to the limited attention span, technology also impacts the brain’s craving for

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