Mindfulness And Meditation Will Now Be Part Of The Curriculum In 370 Schools In England
March 29, 2019
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NYT Feb 4, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/world/europe/uk-mindfulness-children-school.html
a news release announcing the program.The initiative comes months after a survey commissioned by the National Health Service found that one in eight children in England between the ages of 5 and 19 suffered from at least one mental disorder at the time of their assessment in 2017.
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https://www.mindful.org/why-schools-in-england-are-teaching-mindfulness/
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MISP (Mindfulness in Schools Project)
https://mindfulnessinschools.org/teach-dot-b/dot-b-curriculum/
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https://www.mindfulschools.org/training/mindful-educator-essentials/
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https://europa.eu/!Rh69BY
Europe to lead human-centric Artificial Intelligence: we invite the industry, research institutes and public authorities to test ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI drafted by a group of experts.
Educators Are More Stressed at Work Than Average People, Survey Finds
By Madeline Will on October 30, 2017 3:25 PM
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2017/10/educator_stress_aft_bat.html
The survey, released by the American Federation of Teachers and the advocacy group Badass Teachers Association on Monday, included responses from about 5,000 educators. It follows a 2015 survey on educator stress—and finds that stress levels have grown and mental health has declined for this group in the past two years.
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more on stress, mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=stress
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
Colleges With the Best and Worst 6-Year Graduation Rates, 2017
Of the 13 private nonprofit colleges that had graduation rates of 95 percent or above in 2017, seven were in the Ivy League. Two colleges in Virginia had the highest six-year graduation rates among public institutions.
Mankato: 47.1%
WInona: 59.4%
Moorhead: 46.1%
Watch Out, Corporate Learning: Here Comes Disruption
Josh Bersin March 28, 2017 https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2017/03/28/watch-out-corporate-learning-here-comes-disruption/#5bd1a35edc59
The corporate training market, which is over $130 billion in size, is about to be disrupted. Companies are starting to move away from their Learning Management Systems (LMS), buy all sorts of new tools for digital learning, and rebuild a whole new infrastructure to help employees learn. And the impact of GSuite, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Workplace by Facebook could be enormous.
The corporate L&D market has been through wrenching change over the last decade. In only 15 years we’ve come from long, page-turning courses to a wide variety of videos, small micro-learning experiences, mobile apps, and intelligent, adaptive learning platforms.
A new marketplace of tools vendors has emerged, most less than five years old, each trying to stake out a new place in the landscape. These includes tools for external content curation, tools to build MOOCs internally, tools to deliver adaptive, micro-learning content, and intelligent tools to help recommend content, assess learning, practice and identify skills gaps.
We know employees badly need these kinds of tools. Employees are pretty overwhelmed at work ,and typically only have 20 minutes a week to set aside for learning. So rather than produce two to three hour “courses” that require page-turning and slow video or animation, we need to offer “learning on-demand” and recommended content just as needed.
These changes will disrupt and change the $4 billion-plus for corporate learning management systems (LMS). Companies like IBM, Sears, and Visa are starting to turn off their old systems and build a new generation of learning infrastructure that looks more like a “learning network” and less like a single integrated platform.
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/03/28/digital-learning/
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more on digital learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+learning
“Towards a European Data Sharing Space” BDVA Position Paper
BDV Big Data Value Association
April, 2019. Position paper: http://www.bdva.eu/node/1277
This position paper is meant to i) support the dialog among European and national policy makers, industry, research, public sector and civic society in the definition of a common roadmap for the development and adoption of a pan-European Data Sharing Space, and ii) guide public and private investments in this area in the next Multiannual Financial Framework.
http://www.bdva.eu/sites/default/files/BDVA%20DataSharingSpace%20PositionPaper_April2019_V1.pdf
With Bug-in-Ear Coaching, Teachers Get Feedback on the Fly
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/02/27/with-bug-in-ear-coaching-teachers-get-feedback-on.html/
The practice is called bug-in-ear coaching, and it has been around for decades in different sectors in some capacity. But in recent years, more and more educators are beginning to try it out.
And a growing body of research shows it works. When educators are coached with this technology, they use evidence-based practices in their instruction more frequently. Research also shows that most teachers tend to keep up the improvements in their teaching behavior after the bug-in-ear coaching sessions have ended.
Yet experts say there’s skepticism from some in the education community, who worry that real-time feedback while teachers are delivering instruction will be overwhelming.
Virtual teacher-coaching services have become more popular in recent years—teachers record their lessons, and remote coaches review the videos and offer feedback. This approach has been especially popular in rural schools, or in districts that can’t afford to staff their own coaches.
As educators see the benefits of the coaching method, experts predict that it will continue to spread. That has been the case at the University of Washington’s college of education, where researchers have done a series of studies with bug-in-ear coaching.
Activities That Prime the Brain for Learning
Brain breaks and focused attention practices help students feel relaxed and alert and ready to learn.
BRAIN BREAKS
FOCUSED ATTENTION PRACTICES
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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness
