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Jill Bergeron

Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift - 0 views

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 09 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • “The real message is because attention is under siege more than it has ever been in human history, we have more distractions than ever before, we have to be more focused on cultivating the skills of attention,”
  • If young students don’t build up the neural circuitry that focused attention requires, they could have problems controlling their emotions and being empathetic.
  • “The circuitry for paying attention is identical for the circuits for managing distressing emotion,”
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  • The ability to concentrate was the strongest predictor of success.
  • He advocates for a “digital sabbath” everyday, some time when kids aren’t being distracted by devices at all. He’d also like to see schools building exercises that strengthen attention, like mindfulness practices, into the curriculum.
  • Perhaps the most well known study on concentration is a longitudinal study conducted with over 1,000 children in New Zealand by Terrie Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi, psychology and neuroscience professors at Duke University.
  • “The attentional circuitry needs to have the experience of sustained episodes of concentration — reading the text, understanding and listening to what the teacher is saying — in order to build the mental models that create someone who is well educated,” Goleman said.
  • “This ability is more important than IQ or the socio economic status of the family you grew up in for determining career success, financial success and health,” Goleman said.
  • These are signs that educators may need to start paying attention to the act of attention itself. Digital natives may need help cultivating what was once an innate part of growing up.
  • “There’s a need now to teach kids concentration abilities as part of the school curriculum,” Goleman said. “The more children and teens are natural focusers, the better able they’ll be to use the digital tool for what they have to get done and then to use it in ways that they enjoy.”
  • the idea of multitasking is a myth, Goleman said. When people say they’re  “multitasking,” what they are really doing is something called “continuous partial attention,” where the brain switches back and forth quickly between tasks.
  • “I don’t think the enemy is digital devices,” Goleman said. “What we need to do is be sure that the current generation of children has the attentional capacities that other generations had naturally before the distractions of digital devices. It’s about using the devices smartly but having the capacity to concentrate as you need to, when you want to.”
  • Jill Bergeron on 09 Dec 13
     
    Great article on the need to help students better learn to concentrate given the distractions that digital devices provide.
Jill Bergeron

7 Apps for Student Creators | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...-student-creators-monica-burns

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 13 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Students who are "making" to demonstrate their learning can produce content that is shareable and valuable. Their creations can be geared toward a specific audience and viewed outside of the classroom. The sense of purpose that students have as creators can be leveraged to increase engagement and get learners of all ages excited about content.
Kimberly Marlow

11 Virtual Tools for the Math Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Kimberly Marlow on 08 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Kimberly Marlow on 08 Nov 13
     
    I'm looking forward to trying some of these math apps in the classroom.
Jill Bergeron

Creating a Mini Maker Space | Parents | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 08 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Jill Bergeron on 08 Jan 14
     
    How to create a mini-maker space. Good for classrooms
Jill Bergeron

Are Your Students Distracted by Screens? Here's A Powerful Antidote - Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 28 May 14 - No Cached
  • Many teachers I encounter have decided that they need to crack down on — if not entirely eradicate — screen distractions in their classrooms. (A minority of teachers accept it as a form of 21st century doodling.)
  • If the activity is engaging and challenging, there is an authentic audience, and prescribed time limits, students won’t mess around.
  • The more time I spend “teaching” teachers something from the front of the room, the more inclined they are to check email, Facebook, or whatever.
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  • Add in the possibility that they they’ll have to present to the entire class, or post their creation online, and they’re even more focused
  • the activities are challenging and expectations high
  • it’s more like: “This is hard. And I’m not going to show you how to do it. But I expect what you create will be excellent.
  • Tell students you’re going to present their work at a conference, or submit it to a state publication, and then watch the heightened focus in their eyes
  • Teacher lectures impart useful information and explanations, and they can be lively and engaging.
Jill Bergeron

Simulations Can Change the Course of History . . . Classes | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/...-history-classes-matt-levinson

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 27 May 14 - No Cached
  • With each unit of study, I made sure to incorporate an active simulation, ranging from mock press conferences and trials to murder mysteries and dinner parties, from spy dilemmas to mock Survivor games.
  • When a student adopted that character's thinking and point of view in one of the simulations, passion and purpose soared.
  • Even the quietest, most introverted student, given the opportunity to play a personality from history, can step up and into the opportunity to speak from that person's perspective
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  • Set up the environment so that students will be speaking and debating with each other in the roles of their historical characters and around a framing problem or issue
  • Bring in a variety of sources for students to analyze and research.
  • Social media is a wonderful connector for these kinds of simulations, with students setting up Edmodo, Schoology, or Facebook pages for their characters in a simulation, figuring out friend groups, posting photos, and speaking from their character's point of view.
Jill Bergeron

Tips for Coaching Teacher Teams | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 24 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • It can be very, very, painfully slow to build trust in a group of adults -- but it can be done, and you as the facilitator have to believe it can be done.
  • As a facilitator, it's our job to clarify purpose and raise it, integrate it, and reference it all the time.
  • When we do things together that are new and challenging (but within our zone of proximal development), our brains actually produce hormones that make us feel good and feel closer to each other.
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  • even if we trust and like each other, we need to know why we're there.
  • Trust grows in tiny little ways when people are open and authentic, when they ask real questions and listen to each other, when they share their stories and others hold space for those stories, and when they do things together and those things go well. So create space for speaking and listening, ensure that everyone is participating, and then give them something to do.
  • Purpose needs to be connected to a school's mission, vision, and goals. When there isn't alignment and correlation, again, we can get lost.
  • while you can have a lot of power in a team, you may not have had the skill development to do so.
  • And then it happened! They opened up and started sharing their fears and concerns, they asked meaningful questions, and they started learning together
Jill Bergeron

Five-Minute Film Festival: Genius Hour | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 11 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Jill Bergeron on 11 Feb 15
     
    Resources for understanding and explaining Genius Hour.
Jill Bergeron

What research says about technology integration - 0 views

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 12 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Technology is tempting to embed in the classroom en masse. It piques kids’ interests and it is fun to explore. But does it lead to achievement and help students grow as learners? We need to ask ourselves these types of questions if we want to realize the impact that connected education can have on students
  • When words are on a screen, we tend to not stick with content as long as we might when compared to paper.
  • Reasons include more distractions on a screen, such as multimedia enhancements and advertisements, and the “difficulty to see any one passage in the context of the entire text” (Jabr, 2013). These factors can lead to decreased comprehension and understanding.
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  • dedicated e-readers with e-ink technology are equivalent to print, as far as the mind is concerned. “
  • So should reading on tablets and laptops be avoided in classrooms? Not if a digital reading experience offers options for learners who need more support.
  • social media isn’t just for the kids. Educators can leverage these connections to their advantage.
  • In a recent study, teenagers originally from Mexico living in the US saw improvement in acquiring English skills through interacting within Facebook communities (Stewart, 2014). These adolescents also felt more supported and connected when they were able to communicate with others using their native language.
  • Sherry Turkle, a scientist from MIT, found that empathy can be reduced by up to 40% in college students when they prioritize online relationships over in person conversations (Turkle, 2015).
  • What we allow at school needs to be balanced with an awareness of the often unrestricted access students have at home and the community.
  • Integrating digital devices into the classroom tends to accentuate current instruction but does not improve poor practice (Toyoma, 2015)
  • college students who do not use a digital device during class show better understanding of the content taught compared to students who did (Shirkey, 2014)
  • In fact, the mere presence of a laptop or tablet was distracting to those around the student using technology.
  • Keep it simple. If the digital devices lack a natural point for integration, don’t shoehorn it in for the sake of making instruction “connected.” Pedagogy trumps technology.
  • Use technology. Not too much, at home and school. Mostly for learning.
Jill Bergeron

Can Teaching Kids Mindfulness Replace Discipline? - 0 views

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shared by Jill Bergeron on 17 May 17 - No Cached
  • Mindfulness is the awareness that arises through purposefully paying attention to the present moment in a non-judgemental way,
  • As we practice mindfulness, we begin to understand our mind-body connection better and learn not to be so reactive to thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations.
  • With mindfulness, we develop a quality of attention that can be present no matter what is happening around us. This helps us feel more peace, ease, and balance in our lives and we develop more empathy, compassion, and love.
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  • Several studies demonstrate that meditation can help children reduce stress and anxiety, increase attention and focus, and improve academic performance. Scientists have actually witnessed individual’s brains thicken in areas in charge of decision-making, emotional flexibility, and empathy during meditative practices.
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