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147 | Our Students Have Changed: Attention Spans, Dopamine Hits, and What We Can Do
You know it's true... maybe you've even said it out loud: Our students have changed! Honestly, our students' brains have genuinely changed. Not because something is wrong with them — but because the world they live in has calibrated them for constant stimulation, instant rewards, and short-form everything. In this episode I talk about: Why student attention spans in the classroom have genuinely shortened — and what's driving it The dopamine connection: what's happening in our students' brains and why school feels so hard to stay in Why the answer is NOT to gamify your curriculum or compete…
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