It's a common observation of teachers that often, when a teacher asks a student to repeat what he has taught the class, the student stands blacked out. Some teachers, unbehoovingly, make fun of such a student. Yes, there are teachers who understand that the student must have been preoccupied with a more potent thought. Definitely, the human mind can nurture only one thought at a time.

Some researchers suggest that because of diluted attention, students fail to recall the experience of seeing or listening to the information because it was not encoded in short-term memory.

Digital sleepwalking – mindless use of digital platforms – has shortened the attention span of children. Doomscrolling makes scrollers impatient for anything lengthy and multidimensional. They start fidgeting. The mind's

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