Teaching and Learning Collaboratory 2025 Spring In-Person Faculty and Staff Workshop - May 13th
Learning Today: Neuroscience, Digital Technologies, and Distraction
Rensselaer’s Office of Undergraduate Education and the Teaching and Learning Collaboratory is pleased to announce the 2025 Spring In-Person Professional Development Session for faculty and staff set for Tuesday, May 13th from 11:00am – 12:45pm. We are extremely excited to welcome our guest speaker, James M. Lang, Professor of Practice at the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Notre Dame, and an Emeritus Professor of English at Assumption University in Worcester, MA. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which are Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It, Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, and Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty.
In this session, Lang will offer insight to:
- the neuroscience of our brain and a refresher on how it processes.
- teaching in today’s digital world of distractions, how it has changed learning, and guidance on how to work with various strategies in our classrooms.
- and a look into the thought that students do not seem to respect faculty and instructors as they have in the past. Does the distraction offer any correlation?
The presentation, discussion, and Q and A session will take place in the CBIS/Isermann Auditorium. Please register using the link below. We want to have a good turnout for James Lang and ask that you please register by Monday, May 5th. We have a limit of 100 attendees so be sure to register now. In addition, the first 75 participants to register will receive a copy of Lang’s book: Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It.
Link to register: Learning Today: Neuroscience, Digital Technologies, and Distraction
Please register by Monday, May 5th. Registration is required.
A meeting invite will be sent but will not be immediate.
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 13th from 11:00am – 12:45pm
Location: CBIS Building, CBIS/Isermann Auditorium
James M. Lang Short Bio
James M. Lang Website
Note: If you are unable to attend the in-person event, please know that there will be a recording available at a later date and posted on the Teaching and Learning Collaboratory website.