Nilli Lavie
@nillilavie.bsky.social
UCL Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences and head of the Attention and Cognitive Control laboratory at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
We are all lifelong learners but we won’t learn as much if we don’t pay attention. In this article I talk about whether students attention spans are truly decreasing and what can be done about it: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Are pupil attention spans really decreasing?
Professor Nilli Lavie speaks to Tes about the science of attention, why teachers are reporting shorter attention spans and what that means for classroom learning
www.tes.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We are all lifelong learners but we won’t learn as much if we don’t pay attention. In this article I talk about whether students attention spans are truly decreasing and what can be done about it: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...