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How Mindfulness and Storytelling Help Kids Heal and Learn
Sept 2016 https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/09/26/how-mindfulness-and-storytelling-help-kids-heal-and-learn/
Neurological research shows that tragic experiences can affect brain development and impact a child’s ability to concentrate and relax.
In an attempt to offer more psychological support, they reached out to Grossman who is a teacher and co-founder of Mindful Schools. The definition of mindfulness, says Grossman, is to “pay attention, on purpose, to the present moment.”
a form of narrative therapy for the students.
“Mindfulness taught our kids that they have the ability to make wise choices, and it’s strengthened their resiliency.”
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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
more on storytelling in this blog:
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How Mindfulness and Storytelling Help Kids Heal and Learn
How Mindfulness and Storytelling Help Kids Heal and Learn
In an attempt to offer more psychological support, they reached out to Grossman who is a teacher and co-founder of Mindful Schools. The definition of mindfulness, says Grossman, is to “pay attention, on purpose, to the present moment.”
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more on mindfulness and storytelling in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=storytelling
Can Research Prove Ties Between Mindfulness and Achievement?
The Flanker test, which helps give researchers a sense of cognitive flexibility
More on mindfulness in this IMS blog:
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Calming the teenage mind in the classroom
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/08/health/mindfulness-teenagers-schools-stress/
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What Changes When a School Embraces Mindfulness?
http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/30/what-changes-when-a-school-embraces-mindfulness/
The program is a blend of neuroscience, social and emotional tenets like empathy and perspective taking, and mindfulness, a practice which many schools have already started exploring. Several programs teach mindfulness in schools, including Mindful Schools.
More on mindfulness in education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=mindfulness&submit=Search
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=contemplative&submit=Search
Calming the teenage mind in the classroom
Why More Western Doctors Are Now Prescribing Yoga Therapy
http://www.yogajournal.com/article/health/western-doctors-prescribing-yoga-therapy/
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=contemplative&submit=Search
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Teach Mindfulness, Invite Happiness
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teach-mindfulness-invite-happiness
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to present-moment experience and doing so with kindness and curiosity. It is not cognitive but sensory, and so taps into and strengthens different but vitally important parts of the brain that have been neglected by traditional education. One crucial attribute of mindfulness is that it is practiced without judgment. Many of our students are so hard on themselves and their internal critic is so loud that just a few moments of being given permission to not judge can bring huge relief to body and mind. I have seen it bring students to tears.
There is now ample evidence that mindfulness practice enhances positive emotions (PDF).
4 Ways to Refuel Your Gratitude
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/4-ways-re-fuel-your-gratitude-rebecca-alber
Applying Mindfulness to Mundane Classroom Tasks
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/applying-mindfulness-mundane-classroom-tasks-abby-wills
Newbutt, N., Schmidt, M. M., Riva, G., & Schmidt, C. (2020). The possibility and importance of immersive technologies during COVID-19 for autistic people.
Journal of Enabling Technologies,
14(3), 187–199.
https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-07-2020-0028
#lowend #mmersive approach for students with #autism
The authors also pursue low-end vs hi-end approach in the adoption of immersive technologies:
here my annotations in hypothes.is
or if you don’t use it, link to the article
it also follows the same venue of mindful use of immersive, which Gill, Mark C and i tried to pursue several years ago
As described and developed by
Riva and Wiederhold (2020) we suggest that the use of a low-cost spherical, video-based virtual reality mindfulness intervention could reduce the psychological burden of COVID-19 for autistic people, alongside a developed package of at-home educational and support materials to empower families/caregivers delivered via an online eLearning platform to support effective implementation.
Temple’s business school sees virtual reality as future of online learning
https://www.inquirer.com/business/remote-learning-vr-mba-20210423.html
a finance professor at Temple University and academic director of its online MBA, has tested that belief since March 2020, when he launched the class Fintech, Blockchain and Digital Disruption in a virtual reality, or VR, program.
It took 18 months to research the technology and build the course at a cost upward of $100,000. The finished product was completed with the help of Glimpse Group, a New York-based virtual reality and augmented reality company.
“When I teach classes on Zoom, there’s a disconnect,” Ozkan said. “When we asked students last year to compare their VR experience to Zoom, almost all of them said [VR] is better or much better. Which is why we decided to offer it again this year.”
When the 18 students enrolled in the seven-week accelerated course this semester put on their VR headsets, they entered one of two lecture halls modeled after actual rooms on the Temple campus. Students customize their avatars before the semester.
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more on immersive in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive
Teachers Are Living in a Tinderbox of Stressful Conditions. These Scientific Approaches Can Help.
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-07-01-teachers-are-living-in-a-tinderbox-of-stressful-conditions-these-scientific-approaches-can-help
Other essential elements include meditation, breathwork, yoga, cultivating and maintaining high-quality relationships, and intentional reinforcement of mindsets that promote human connection, such as gratitude, altruism and collective efficacy. What’s real in the mind is real is real in the body, and it is our perceptions—not “objective” reality—that drive our biochemistry. Accordingly, finding a silver lining—even under the most dire of circumstances—instigates a biochemical “upward spiral” which fosters constructive thinking in a demanding moment and, over the long-term, protects health and psychological well-being.
