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Adam, hello everyone. Welcome to today's webinar. Our students face an attention crisis understanding their distracted minds. I am Adam Ghazali. I'm the director of neuroscape at the University of California San Francisco, as well as a professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry. I'll be monitoring, moderating the webinar today. During this presentation, you'll learn about the newest research regarding the impact of technology and attention span as it relates to our students. We'll address questions that the audience submitted at the end of the presentation. So okay, so let's get started now. Okay, I'm going to start by giving a brief tour of some of the amazing resources that brainfacts has for educators. We're going to begin by looking at the for educators page. To find this page, you'll go to the top left corner of the brainfacts.org home page. I'll point that out here in your slides, and click on these three horizontal lines, okay, that will open a sidebar where you'll find for educators. Okay, let's show you where that is, okay.

The educator section is full of lesson plans that can be used to teach neuroscience in a classroom, as well as content to help educators better understand the study of neuroscience. You could dive in there a little bit, and what you'll see is, along the top, there are five subtopics for Educator resources that may be of interest to teachers. Okay, first, we'll note the four classrooms section, which includes tons of activities to be used during classroom instruction. These activities can be sorted by topic and grade level so you can find exactly what works for your students.