In the third of a series of probes of attention in the classroom and my own mind, I briefly revisit my earlier classroom episodes, in which I turned the camera on my students while they stared at their laptops, then showed them the video while they continued to stare at their laptops. At the end of the semester, I learned that at least a few of them were thinking about multitasking, at least part of the time. It only seems fair to turn attention to my own attention in regard to how well a computer augments my ability to talk and type simultaneously.

In the third of a series of probes of attention in the classroom and my own mind, I briefly revisit my earlier classroom episodes, in which I turned the camera on my students while they stared at their laptops, then showed them the video while they continued to stare at their laptops. At the [...]