Educational Innovation through Participatory Activities

Abstract

[EN] The paper describes a new challenge for university teachers. The theory of ‘attention deficit’ was first used by Simon (1971) to describe the emergence of new challenges in an information-rich world. We use this theory to describe the emerging challenge of ‘partial attention’ in the modern classroom. The present study describes participatory activities as a method to increase the students’ attention. A collection of 320 responses is used to discuss the relevance of participatory activities.