It's a common observation of teachers that often, when a teacher asks a student to repeat what he has taught the class, the student stands blacked out. Some teachers, unbehoovingly, make fun of such a student. Yes, there are teachers who understand that the student must have been preoccupied with a more potent thought. Definitely, the human mind can nurture only one thought at a time.

Some researchers suggest that because of diluted attention, students fail to recall the experience of seeing or listening to the information because it was not encoded in short-term memory.

Digital sleepwalking – mindless use of digital platforms – has shortened the attention span of children. Doomscrolling makes scrollers impatient for anything lengthy and multidimensional. They start fidgeting. The mind's linear functioning on socials slows down the cognitive processing and retrieval of information.

The drab lecturing pedagogy is rampant in our institutions. Hook openings and contextualising lessons with students' lived........

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