The Attention Classroom: How to Teach in an Age of Distraction - Softcover

Conti, Rafael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9374126508 ISBN 13: 9789374126509

Verlag: Mindful Pages, 2026

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In a world engineered to steal your focus, this book shows you how to win it back-period after period, learner by learner. It is a field guide to designing lessons, rooms and routines that make concentration feel natural, not forced, turning noise into momentum and anxiety into progress. If you have ever wondered why your smartest plans wobble the moment phones appear, or how to make curiosity outcompete the feed, you are in the right place. You will learn practical moves drawn from classroom attention, student engagement strategies, and focus in the classroom that you can try tomorrow and refine all year. Discover how to use gamification in education without gimmicks, apply cognitive load theory teachers can actually plan with, and build formative assessment strategies that act like a steering wheel, not a scorecard. You will set up fair phone norms using proven phone policy schools patterns, swap cramming for retrieval practice classroom, and run simple "two-week experiments" to iterate what works. Written for teachers, coaches, heads of department and anyone who leads learning, it balances evidence with clarity, offering scripts, templates and protocols that protect dignity while raising rigour. If you are ready for digital detox for students that respects reality rather than pretending the internet doesn't exist, and an approach grounded in the attention economy education rather than slogans, this is your map. - Design lesson rhythms that hold attention without theatrics - Replace busywork with visible progress learners can feel - Build a culture where attention is a shared contract-and everyone keeps it

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Rafael Conti is a nonfiction writer and research-driven storyteller with a sustained interest in how institutions make decisions under pressure. His work approaches military history as a meeting point of strategy, administration, technology, and human judgment, with particular attention to the practical mechanics that grand narratives often skip: schedules, reporting chains, maintenance realities, and the organisational compromises that shape what commanders can actually do.Conti writes in an academic register while keeping the reader close to operational problems as they were experienced, not as they appear in hindsight. He is drawn to the Battle of the Atlantic because it resists simple explanations. It can be told as a drama of heroism and invention, yet it is equally a story about queues in ports, fatigue on night watches, the ambiguity of partial information, and the discipline required to keep merchant shipping moving. That tension between the dramatic and the procedural sits at the centre of his perspective.A recurring thread in his thinking is the long European memory of blockade, scarcity, and maritime connection, and how those experiences shaped twentieth-century statecraft. Conti's aim is to offer readers a clear framework for understanding complex historical campaigns without reducing them to single causes, and to show why the Atlantic remains one of the best cases for thinking seriously about logistics and intelligence in modern war.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mindful Pages
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9374126508
• ISBN 13: 9789374126509
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland