Can I just get your attention…
James Clay,
e-Learning Stuff,
Jan 13, 2010
The BBC News reports that students have attention spans of just 10 minutes, which is manifestly false. "It's just that lectures only hold their attention for ten minutes," writes James Clay. "That is a very different thing. If students can spend four hours playing World of Warcraft, what does that say about attention spans?" QED. (There's no link to the original study, and we are told by the BBC only that it was conducted for "the technology firm Olympus" and it doesn't show up in a search). It's already being cited as a fact. If you ask me, someone at BBC should be fired for this.
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