Timeline for Alternatives to sewing (or any habit) to stay focused in class
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| Jun 4, 2020 at 18:08 | comment | added | workerjoe | As a lecturer I think I'd be okay with a student knitting in class. I believe it's less distracting than laptop and cell phone screens, which probably half of the rest of the class are looking at. (I assume you're not doing both.) Sewing seems like it would require moving your materials around periodically, whereas knitting is kind of a steady process. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 15:56 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | @WolfgangBangerth Not trying to justify the behaviour of others or teach anyone how to behave. Just sharing my own feelings. I might be wrong and all. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 14:19 | comment | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | @DmitrySavostyanov Obviously she stops moving her hands when she actually says something. But listening to a seminar or the department head appears to be something that she can proficiently do without being distracted while knitting. Others are reading their phones, and that's definitely distracting. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 14:17 | comment | added | Kathy | @DmitrySavostyanov Not all of these activities take the same amount or kind of attention. Activities like crocheting or knitting, which don't involve language processing, can help someone keep more focus on the conversation and keep attention from wandering off. | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 12:37 | comment | added | displayName | However, the world today is such that we have the obligation to do numerous things in which we are not interested at all. For those cases, if doing a secondary task makes someone’s life easier, then I think as kind individual ourselves, we can let that go. (2/2) | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 12:34 | comment | added | displayName | @DmitrySavostyanov: I think you are correct. When your interest is fixed, the focus stays fixed too on the object of your interest. So a person doing a secondary task conveys that the primary task is not of much interest to him/her. (1/2) | |
| Jun 4, 2020 at 9:53 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | I feel uncomfortable maintaining a deep conversation with a person knitting. Similar to a person chewing a gum, listening to music through one earpod, or writing messages on a smartphone. Perhaps, they are 100% in the conversation, but to me it feels that they are not fully interested. | |
| Jun 3, 2020 at 19:41 | history | answered | Wolfgang Bangerth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |