Fidget items can have practical uses that help people calm down and stay focused. The problem with spinners may be that they require visual attention, which can distract users and others nearby.
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Students need to have an educational incentive not to skip class, rather than just being scare of Big Brother.
In his anthemic Let me entertain you, Robbie Williams urges his audience to “come and sing a different song”. University lecturers could take a lesson or two from Stoke-on-Trent’s favourite singer-songwriter…
I recently invited a top management consultant to give a guest lecture at my course at Copenhagen Business School. I went to sit among the students during the talk. They had been instructed to take notes…
Ofsted’s recent report raising concerns about “low-level disruptive behaviour” in schools may prompt nostalgia for an age when order was maintained by students’ innate deference to their elders, backed…
The joke among lecturers goes like this: you can receive “instant feedback” on your teaching simply by observing how many texts and social media posts your students send on their mobiles during class…
Technology is an established part of the lives of students. But university lecturers are becoming increasingly frustrated at how they must compete with tablets and laptops for students’ attention in the…
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Executive Director of Postgraduate Programmes, Surrey Business School, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor, ESCP Business School
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of Bolton
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Senior Lecturer in Learning Technology, Bath Spa University
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Professor of Education and Director of Teacher Education, University of Leicester
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Professor in Philosophy and Business, Copenhagen Business School
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Professor of Computational Media, University of California, Santa Cruz
