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Jill Bergeron

9 sources of news for kids that you may not know about - 0 views

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current events news

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  • Jill Bergeron on 02 Jan 14
     
    Current events sites
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Age of Distraction: Why It's Crucial for Students to Learn to Focus | MindShift - 0 views

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focus distraction attention SEL multitasking

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  • “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

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

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technology education learning teaching pedagogy sugata_mitra StudentCentered

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      Mitra's experiment- what will kids do with a computer?
  • “If you put a computer in front of children and remove all other adult restrictions, they will self-organize around it,” Mitra says, “like bees around a flower.”
  • “The bottom line is, if you’re not the one controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well.”
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  • Theorists from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi to Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori have argued that students should learn by playing and following their curiosity.
  • The study found that when the subjects controlled their own observations, they exhibited more coordination between the hippocampus and other parts of the brain involved in learning and posted a 23 percent improvement in their ability to remember objects. “The bottom line is, if you’re not the one who’s controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well,” says lead researcher Joel Voss, now a neuroscientist at Northwestern University.
  • A similar study at UC Berkeley demonstrated that kids given no instruction were much more likely to come up with novel solutions to a problem.
Jill Bergeron

A School Designed To Let Kids Be Kids - 0 views

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TED talk Kindergarten innovation design

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  • Jill Bergeron on 30 Apr 15
     
    This is a TED Talk about an innovative Kindergarten in Japan.
Jill Bergeron

The 'mindset' mindset: What we miss by focusing on kids' attitudes - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • But the first problem with this seductively simple script change is that praising children for their effort carries problems of its own, as several studies have confirmed: It can communicate that they’re really not very capable and therefore unlikely to succeed at future tasks. (“If you’re complimenting me just for trying hard, I must really be a loser.”)
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      Jill Bergeron on 25 Aug 15
       
      A blanket formula for talking to others about success and failure is bound to fail. I think there needs to be a sensitivity shown to each person in a situation where they need motivation.
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SXSWedu 2015 Featured Session: Raised by Siri: A Digital Parenting Course - YouTube - 0 views

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parenting gaming tech

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    Mr. Hooker takes a very grounded approach to explaining kids' tech use to parents.
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Kids Fun Online: Interactive Weather Maker - 0 views

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weather interactive science earth science

shared by Jill Bergeron on 08 Jan 14 - No Cached
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    This is an interactive site whereby students can learn how different elements affect weather patterns.
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The Secret to Raising Smart Kids - Scientific American - 0 views

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mindset motivation SEL

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  • more than 35 years of scientific investigation suggests that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people vulnerable to failure, fearful of challenges and unwilling to remedy their shortcomings.
  • our studies show that teaching people to have a “growth mind-set,” which encourages a focus on “process” (consisting of personal effort and effective strategies) rather than on intelligence or talent, helps make them into high achievers in school and in life.
  • Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.
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  • The helpless ones believe that intelligence is a fixed trait: you have only a certain amount, and that's that. I call this a “fixed mind-set.”
  • These experiments were an early indication that a focus on effort can help resolve helplessness and engender success.
  • The mastery-oriented children, on the other hand, think intelligence is malleable and can be developed through education and hard work. They want to learn above all else.
  • Jill Bergeron on 12 Jan 15
     
    Carol Dweck's article emphasizing mindset and praise.
Jill Bergeron

Punitive Damages - 0 views

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parenting punishment consequences

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  • Punishment proved to be counterproductive regardless of whether the parents were using it to stop aggression, excessive dependence, bed-wetting, or something else.  The researchers consistently found that punishment was “ineffectual over the long term as a technique for eliminating the kind of behavior toward which it is directed.”
  • parents who “punish[ed] rule-breaking behavior in their children at home often had children who demonstrated higher levels of rule-breaking when away from home.”[3]
  • Hitting children clearly “teaches them a lesson” – and the lesson is that you can get your way with people who are weaker than you are by hurting them. 
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  • Announcing how we plan to punish children (“Remember:  if you do x, then I’ll do y to you”) may salve our conscience because we gave them fair warning, but all we’ve really done is threaten them.
  • This communicates a message of distrust (“I don’t think you’ll do the right thing without the fear of punishment”), leads kids to think of themselves as complying for extrinsic reasons, and emphasizes their powerlessness.
  • Sometimes parents are advised to use a time-out instead of spanking their kids -- as though these were the only two options available.  The reality, as we saw in an earlier chapter, is that both of these tactics are punitive.  They differ only with respect to whether children will be made to suffer by physical or emotional means. 
  • “When you stand by and let bad things happen, your child experiences the twin disappointments that something went wrong and you did not seem to care enough about her to lift a finger to help prevent the mishap.  The ‘natural consequences’ approach is really a form of punishment.”[7]
  • Jill Bergeron on 26 Mar 15
     
    This book excerpt puts an interesting spin on punishing children.
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