we move quickly one site to another on the web says doctor ted a computer scientist from massachusetts and we are losing the ability to concentrate with millions of website to choose from the attention span of the average internet user is just seconds. there are other digital distractions too : email instant messaging and quickie move on websites like shortspan .com
some people are worried about the effect on young people you need time to understand and thing about what you read , says secondary school teacher Julia wood from london young people move from the website to another on the time and their brains become full of useless information but their is no time to make sense of it i am trying to persuade my pupil to read more book so that they concentrate on one subject for longer
other teachers are trying more unusual methods to improve students concentrate welsh secondary school teacher Anne Sawan so worried about one class of fifteen year old boys that she start playing Mozart during her science lessons she say that it had and amazing effect the music made them calmer and their concentrate was much better
in some scottish school they have a technology solution to the problem pupils start their school day with brain-training games using nintendo games consoles again teacher say that there is a big improvement in pupils concentration
but not every one believes that there is a problem professor Ray Cole an educational psychologist says on the web young people learn to make quick decision about what is and isn't worth reading they might look at five unhelpful websites very quickly before stopping and reading a sixth useful website more carefully in a world with so much information available this is an important skill