In our daily fight for attention of students and coworkers, we have to reflect on what is taking the attention away from us. In the Ted Talk by Tristan Harris, he states that snap chat, which is the main way that teenagers communicate, has lost real conversations over the need to maintain a streak.
The first step in addressing this loss of attention and loss of real conversations, has to be informing the students about the how they are effected by the need to communicate, and the loss of meaningful conversation.
What I propose is that students identify how they are being drawn into social media, what makes their attention being taken from in the moment, present influences, to social media and derailing focus.
To start this, I would like it if you would comment where your attention is driven and what makes you lose focus on what is going on around you?