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  1. William James thought that attention could not be highly trained \u2018by any amount of drill or discipline\u2019. Posner would disagree. Do you think attention can be trained? Why\/why not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. \u2018We can no longer afford to indulge our automatic desires for mental distraction\u2019. Discuss.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Which strategies do you think would be most effective at training your attention? Why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Do you think that having grown up with the Internet gives individuals multitasking skills? Explain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. \u2018The bottom line is that our students are multitasking and we cannot stop them without placing them in a boring, un-motivating environment. The trick is to develop educational models that allow for appropriate multitasking and that improve learning\u2019 (Rosen et al., 2010, p. 95). Do you agree with the statement? If so, why?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":338,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[1],"content-type":[38],"parent-book":[40],"resource-type":[30],"class_list":["post-255","content","type-content","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","content-type-content","parent-book-40","resource-type-essay-questions"],"acf":{"linked_book":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t