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Contemplative Pedagogy | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University - 0 views

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pedagogy attention mindfulness contemplative

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  • Contemplative pedagogy involves teaching methods designed to cultivate deepened awareness, concentration, and insight
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Knewton Salon: How has the internet changed the way you think? | Knewton Blog - 1 views

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salon internet changed think

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  • In this day and age, concentration is just a muscle we need to work out.
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5 Reasons Teenagers Act the Way They Do - Mental Floss - 0 views

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reasons teenagers act

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  • Risk Taking
  • This means teens literally cannot come to a decision as fast as an adult.
  • scans showed that the reward center of the teen brain became much more active in the company of their peers
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  • Giving in to Peer Pressure
  • Lack of Concentration
  • While teens may look more like adults than kids, to a neuroscientist their brains resemble a child’s.
  • Overly Emotional
  • That means that if you are expressing an emotion—say, disappointment—a teen’s brain has a 50% chance of misinterpreting it as a different emotion, like anger.
  • Getting Dumber
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Attention versus distraction? What that big NY Times story leaves out » Niema... - 0 views

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attention distraction Internet learning

shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • robbing kids of their ability to concentrate
  • The question, though, is: distraction from what? And also: What’s inherently wrong with distraction?
  • Formal education, as we’ve framed it, is not only about finding ways to learn more about the things we love, but also, equally, about squelching our aversion to the things we don’t — all in the ecumenical spirit of generalized knowledge.
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  • He just doesn’t care about algebra.
  • The web inculcates a follow your bliss approach to learning that seeps
  • It’s a bottom-up shift that our top-down education systems, and journalism along with them, are grappling with.
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      Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 10
       
      The real issue? What is the correct balance?
  • It’s not ruining what was; it’s simply moving on. We don’t write like the Romantics anymore, not because we can’t enjoy or appreciate what they write, but because that is simply not the world we live in.
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