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What do you believe is the biggest obstacle in getting students  to be engaged in their learning these days?

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What do you believe is the biggest obstacle in getting students  to be engaged in their learning these days?

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motivation, attention, literacy deficits, parents, entitlement, being so addicted to technology!

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technology!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Motivation!!!

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PARENTS! Some are not supportive of their child's education. We lack supportive parents that empower their kids to be more independent. We lack supportive parents that work with their kids as they learn to overcome obstacles.

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Motivation, attention span, social media influence.

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Short attention spans (because of technology)

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Short attention spans (because of technology)

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Ambition, interest that doesn't involve technology

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Too much screen time

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Instant gratification

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The biggest obstacle to engaging students is their over stimulation with technology and their lack of being intrinsically motivated.

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Technology..... as well as parents not pushing the importance of education.

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Instant gratification.

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They are so use to constant engagement and content that they get "bored" very easily

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Technology, short attention span, motivation and lack of parent support.

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Students don't have the motivation to learn. They also believe in middle school that it "doesn't matter" if they fail their classes because they will still move on to high school.

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technology

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Motivation, distractions, excuses, technology 

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Motivation, distractions, excuses, technology 

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Tori Scalabrini-Motivation, distractions, disinterest in the subject

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Tori Scalabrini-Motivation, distractions, disinterest in the subject

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Motivation, interest, effort, responsibility for own learning

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intrinsic motivation, social media and technology

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intrinsic motivation, social media and technology

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Lack of motivation. And they get distracted very easily.

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Lack of work ethic which is unfortunately coming from the parents

no sense of pride in what they produce and willingness to work hard for intrinsic reasons

they are distracted and unfocused (in part due to electronics and lack of sleep)

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Technology

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If a student doesn’t find the content of the class interesting, it can easily lead to distraction.

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If a student doesn’t find the content of the class interesting, it can easily lead to distraction.

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Students expect us to entertain them when we are here to lead them to enlightenment.

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Middle School Math - Volume Activity

Find the volume of the rectangular prisms.

Extension: Find the volume of the irregular 3D figure

Extension: Build rectangular prisms with volumes: 20, 36 and and 60

Extension: Create an irregular 3D figure with a volume of 72