I find myself struggling to gain my students' attention as I try to teach them the wonders of the world we know of as science, a plight I think many of my fellow middle school educators face in the war against technology for attention. This issue is further compounded by this generations' apathy to traditional authority figures in knowledge and news, preferring to gather information from a variety of resources like TikTok, Google or Apple News, YouTube, and other online articles instead of just blindly trusting any one source. 

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I found the ideas outlined in __author__ A new culture of learning: to get at the heart of many issues in modern post-COVID classrooms. _____ posits that in order to truly educate our student's in a way that is impactful and beneficial to their future we must embrace technology to create an authentic learning environment that enriches society and increases the depth of learning (_____). The solution to the student attention crisis? We need to focus on the aspects of technology that students, and people in general, find to be so irresistible and replicate that in our classrooms, the best way to do this is by focusing on the sense of community that is achieved using technology in which all members of the community are contributing and learning from each other (___).