The collective attentional ecosystem, not the teacher, is the classroom’s agent.

Evidence

As much as it is viewed in terms of ‘a master’ facing ‘students’, the classroom should be seen in terms of a group of researchers in the process of inventing a new way of making sense of a sphere of knowledge – a group in which it is the collective attentional ecosystem, more than the teacher, that is in the positon of agency. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 271

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s attention/platform theme — reframes who holds agency in any attention economy, classroom or screen. — connects to: Attention is alignment, the same faculty on individual and collective levels; Attention is an activity that forms persons, not a resource that platforms act upon — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 68; Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Attention is alignment, the same faculty on individual and collective levels #corroborates (0.90)
• Attention is an activity that forms persons, not a resource that platforms act upon #responds-to (0.85) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 68
• Education is world-mediated and mutual, not teacher-delivered #corroborates (0.85) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 5
• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality #expands (0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121
• Attention is socially and materially mediated, not just a scarce mental resource #expands (0.80) — Annual Review of Anthropology contributors (⚠ verify author line), The Political Economy of Attention, 26
• Attentional alignment with others generates communal powers no individual could reach alone #corroborates (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 111
• Institutions are instruments made of thinking humans, not robots. #responds-to (0.70) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 499