Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/head-in-the-cloud/201701/the-dunning-kruger-president
Sandberg and her Option B co-author Adam Grant believe resilience is a skill you can learn.
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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
Amelia Harper Feb. 28, 2018
https://www.educationdive.com/news/can-yoga-be-used-as-a-disciplinary-tool/518049/
Traditional school discipline policies based on behaviorist principles are not well-supported by research, some educators say. And zero-tolerance policies are now viewed by most educators as more harmful than beneficial because of their association with the school-to-prison pipeline. New strategies, such as mindfulness and the practice of yoga, are gaining popularity in some areas as replacements for traditional discipline for minor infractions.
Advocates of yoga in schools claim that the practice does more than provide a way to reduce stress and improve self-control. Yoga also improves the mind/body connection, encourages a healthy and fit lifestyle and improves emotional health as well. Contracting with yoga instructors to provide a few classes a week may be a relatively inexpensive way to deal with some behavior issues.
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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
https://softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/tAyfSOjZTkVW05/html
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Effective Online Engagement
Camille Brandt, Bemidji State University
student is a boxed term. but there are flavors; undergrad vs grad, what takeaways they are looking for, categories of students
ask for expectations, outcomes, and keep touching bases during class.
Vocaroo.com
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Grading Participation in an Online Course
Kerry Marrer, St. Cloud State University
Kate Mooney, St. Cloud State University
Kris Portz, St. Cloud State University
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What’s a FIG? Inquiring Minds Want to Know!
Miki Huntington, Minneapolis Community and Technical College
COP Community of Practice. Stipends – may be or not. May be only a book.
topics: online learning, academic technologies etc
offering support: to one another in a collaborative environment. Commenting to each other notes.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ijco6s9bNBuD5_fYmrRTgKzubCXFM6GX
Common Sense Media recently partnered with the Center for Humane Technology, which supports the development of ethical technological tools, to lay out a fierce call for regulation and awareness about the health issues surrounding tech addiction.
Tristan Harris, a former ethicist at Google who founded the Center for Humane Technology
To support educators making such decisions, Common Sense Media is taking their “Truth about Tech” campaign to schools through an upgraded version of their current Digital Citizenship curriculum. The new updates will include more information on subjects such as:
In a recent NPR report, writer Anya Kamenetz, notes that clinicians are debating whether technology overuse is best categorized as a bad habit, a symptom of other mental struggles (such as depression or anxiety) or as an addiction.
Dr. Jenny Radesky, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician at the American Academy of Pediatrics, notes that though she’s seen solid evidence linking heavy media usage to problems with sleep and obesity, she hesitated to call the usage “addiction.”
Dr. Robert Lustig, an endocrinologist who studies hormones at the University of Southern California disagreed, noting that parents have to see the overuse of technology as an addiction.
Pushing for “whole-child education,” the Compassionate Schools Project focuses on mind and body wellness
http://hechingerreport.org/yoga-becomes-respected-part-school-day/
a massive study of a “whole-child” education program called the Compassionate Schools Project, has several purposes.
Schools can’t focus only on academic content, she said, with students who don’t feel safe and calm in the classroom.
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more about mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindful
It has long been claimed that critical thinking ability sets graduates apart. But are universities really preparing students for the modern workplace? David Matthews reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/do-critical-thinking-skills-give-graduates-the-edge
what value is higher education supposed to add? And how is this different from what school or vocational education offer?
A further question is whether even the academic brand of critical thinking is being particularly well taught at university. According to Bryan Greetham, a philosopher and university researcher who has written several books on how students and professionals can improve their thinking, “We tend to want to do the simple thing – which is to teach students what to think, not how to think.”
This was most famously explored in the 2011 book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. The authors, American sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, found that 45 per cent of US undergraduates failed to significantly improve their critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills during their first two years at university. Other US-based studies have raised similar concerns. One from 2009, “Improving Students’ Evaluation of Informal Arguments”, published in the Journal of Experimental Education, warned that college and high school students have “difficulty evaluating arguments on the basis of their quality”.
But if universities don’t have the resources to offer intensive classes, could they weave the teaching of critical thinking skills into regular teaching? Britt thinks that academics can easily make time for quick “check-ins” during their lectures to ensure that their students understand what they’ve been told.
High school experience, of course, varies enormously by country. In France, studying philosophy – arguably the closest that traditional disciplines get to explicit critical thinking courses – is compulsory. In England, meanwhile, the critical thinking A level has recently been scrapped.
As well as calls for critical thinkers and smart thinkers, there are also frequent demands from politicians for more “entrepreneurial” university graduates – who, instead of joining graduate recruitment programmes at large employers, might start their own businesses.
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critical thinking
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=critical+thinking
2017-Summit-Conference-Flyer 
Minnesota Fathers and Family Network
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/11/yes-quitting-facebook-may-make-you-happier.html
Published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking and highlighted by the canny and pseudonymous Neuroskeptic, Danish researcher Morten Tromholt recruited 1,095 participants (by way of Facebook, naturally) and put them into two groups. One pledged to not sign onto the social network for a full week (87 percent made it) and a control group used the platform the same way as they always did.
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more on mindfulness, contemplative practices, contemplative computing, disconnect in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=contemplative+
https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/09/26/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
