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anonymous

Stop Telling Your Students To "Pay attention!" | Brain Based Learning | Brain Based Tea... - 1 views

www.jensenlearning.com/...brain-based-teaching

attention brain

shared by anonymous on 18 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • The brain will not change in classroom direct instruction without the student’s attention.
  • Ask students to make a prediction on something related to your content (the process, outcome, circumstance(s), etc.)
  • add a strong goal-acquisition
  • anonymous on 18 Oct 12
     
    I laughed so hard when I read this part: First, stop expecting kids to pay attention. They don't owe you anything. They're only in school because it's the law and their friends are there. He also lists some good strategies - none that are new, but it is always good to review!
Sara Wilkie

T. S. Eliot on Idea Incubation, Inhibition, and the Mystical Quality of Creativity + a ... - 0 views

www.brainpickings.org/...t-s-eliot-on-creativity

creativity quality eliot

shared by Sara Wilkie on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Wilkie on 01 Oct 12
     
    "Poet, playwright, and cultural critic T. S. Eliot was born 124 years ago today. In this passage from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (public library), cited in the 1942 gem Anatomy of Inspiration, Eliot adds to previously explored theories of how creativity works by taking a curious look at how physical illness brings a near-mystical quality of poetry, driven by two key elements of creativity: the presence of an incubation period when unconscious processing of existing ideas takes place, and the removal of habitual inhibitions, or something John Keats has termed "negative capability"."
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