How to Enhance Sustained Attention: The Late Late Show with Paul Hazzard

Dr Éadaoin Slattery of Dublin City University (DCU) discusses attention and how it can be improved.

She describes self-alert training.

How can Minecraft have positive benefits for pupils?  Listen in and you'll find out what it can do for your class.

 

If you try the self-alert training be sure to leave a comment about how it went.

 

Éadaoin Slattery, M.Sc., Ph.D. 

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Game-Based Learning and Assessment 

Centre for Assessment Research, Policy and Practice in Education (CARPE)

Institute of Education, St. Patrick's Campus 

Dublin City University 

 

Recent publications:

Slattery, E. J., Butler, D., O’Leary, M., & Marshall, K. (2023). Primary school students’ experiences using Minecraft Education during a national project-based initiative: An Irish study. TechTrends. 

 

Slattery, E. J., Butler, D., O'Leary, M., & Marshall, K. (2023). Teachers' experiences using Minecraft Education in primary school: An Irish perspective. Irish Educational Studies.

 

Slattery, E. J., O'Callaghan, E., Ryan, P., & Fortune, D. & McAvinue, L. P. (2022). Popular interventions to enhance sustained attention in children and adolescents: A critical systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

 

Slattery, E. J., Ryan, P., Fortune, D. G., & McAvinue, L. P. (2022). Unique and overlapping contributions of sustained attention and working memory to parent and teacher ratings of inattentive behaviour. Child Neuropsychology.