James Lang shares about his new book, Distracted, on episode 331 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

One of the main ideas of the book is to try to convince people that attention is something that we should value in education and not take for granted.

We are all experiencing lots of challenging issues right now in our lives.

One of the major things I argue in the book is thinking about the structure of the class.

Learning does not happen without attention.

Instructions for living a life:

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it.

Mary Oliver, Sometimes