{"data":{"ID":1152,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1667767935,"CreatorID":79,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"The Attention Economy and Our Collective Responsibility","Handle":"the_attention_economy_and_our_collective_responsibility","ShortDescription":"Today, our devices are set to notify us about everything from a \"Like\" on Instagram to breaking news about the world. \r\n\r\nAttention has become a commodity, and schools are struggling to help students deal. Join a conversation around how we can help students learn in the Attention Economy.","Description":"Our phones, our laptops, our watches have become more and more sophisticated about how they demand our attention, and many adults (myself included) struggle to manage how we allocate our focus. For students, this problem is often even more acute.\r\n\r\nAs a result, the 2022-23 school year has seen a return of the \"Cell Phone Ban\" wars as schools struggle to help kids regain their in-class focus, post-Zoom school. Districts are buying Yondr pouches, students are posting TikTok videos on how to subvert cell phone bans, and teachers and administrators are often caught in the middle.\r\n\r\nBut - what if we considered that learning how to manage our attention was a fundamental part of being a fully engaged citizen of our world?\r\n\r\nCan we develop ways to teach kids to value their attention? Can schools be the place where students learn to understand the attention economy and to understand their role with in it?\r\n\r\nLet's spend 90 minutes thinking about how we could teach our way through the Attention Economy.","Link":["http:\/\/practicaltheory.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"5 minutes: Preparing yourself -- how many 'pings' do you get in an hour? \r\n\r\n15 minutes: Defining the problem. What is the attention economy? How do we help students understand the commodification of their own attention?\r\n\r\n20 minutes: Collaborative Goal Setting - What would be your desired outcomes for a unit on the attention economy? What would you like student to know more about? Be able to do? Understand?\r\n\r\n20 minutes: Collaborative Unit Planning - how might you structure a unit to achieve those goals? What would the activities be? What could a culminating project look like?\r\n\r\n15 minutes: Share out.\r\n\r\n15 minutes: Check your \"ping\" count. Discussion - what does this make you consider? What reflections does this cause you to make about you? Your students? How we all manage the attention economy?","Presenter":["Chris Lehmann"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["clehmann@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":143,"ScheduleLocationID":26,"SubmitterID":79,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":10}}