Other teachers are trying more unusual methods to improve students' concentration. Welsh secondary school teacher Anne Savan was so worried about one class of fifteen-year-old boys that she started playing mozart during her Science lessons. She says thar it had an amazing effect: ' the music made them calmer, and their concentration was much better.
In some Scottish school, they have a technological solution to the problem. Pupils start their school day with brain-training games, using nintendo games consoles. Agin, teachers say that there is a big improvement in pupils' concentration.
But not everyone believes that there is a problem.
Professor Ray Cole, an educational psychologist says: ' on the web, young people leam to make quick decisions about what is and isn't worth reading. They might look at five helpful 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