Tag: burnout


Jul
2021

Dealing with Digital Fatigue

categories: contemplative computing, contemplative pedagogy, educational technology, instructional technology

8 Tips for Educators Dealing with Digital Fatigue

https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2021/06/8-tips-educators-dealing-digital-fatigue

Feeling mentally exhausted from videoconferencing? Take these steps to stay sharp.

Tip #1: Create a Dedicated Space for Online Teaching

Tip #2: Be Selective When Trying Online Learning Tools

Tip #3: Calendar Block and Automate to Save Time

Tip #4: Delegate Tasks to Teaching Assistants or Students

Tip #5: To Prevent Burnout, Resist the Urge to Multitask

Tip #6: Turn Off Your Camera From Time to Time

Tip #7: Schedule Time for Self-Care in Education

Tip #8: Cut Yourself Some Slack During Online Teaching

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more on burnout in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=burnout


May
2021

Medicine & Mindfulness

categories: contemplative computing, VR

Medicine & Mindfulness: How VR Training Is Helping Healthcare Through The Pandemic

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2021/02/19/medicine–mindfulness-how-vr-training-is-helping-healthcare-through-the-pandemic/

Virtual Reality (VR) training tools are here to help, ensuring that healthcare professionals can be trained remotely, immersively, and more thoroughly than traditional methods for both front-line medicine and in specialist procedures.

use of wearable contact tracing sensors or VR training tools in the education sector and in an high-pressure medical context

Their VR platform uses personalized prediction software and “gamification and varied content formats to engage users and embed knowledge”, and has been used to “deliver typically labor-intensive training quickly and at scale”

“VR enables medics to immerse themselves in these infrequent scenarios, and can reduce skill fade by 52% and improve learning retention rates by up to 75% (compared to 10% for traditional methods),”

Simulated virtual learning can also ease the psychological burden of notoriously intensive medical training and place more emphasis on wellbeing.

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more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness


Apr
2021

fatigue and burnout

categories: information technology, teaching

Feb
2021

mental distress

categories: information literacy

Oct
2020

burnout w Brene Brown

categories: brain, contemplative pedagogy

Aug
2020

Thriving Through Fatigue

categories: mindfulness

The Long Road Ahead: Thriving Through Fatigue

The Pandemic is not a financial recession: it is a fast-paced economic transformation. We’re transforming our companies into low-touch, high-safety businesses and we’re doing it a light speed.

We’re hyper-engaged digitally, yet highly stressed emotionally.

The most stressed part of the workforce is now young families, working mothers, and single employees working at home – and despite the online yoga classes and bread-baking videos, people are just tired.

Fatigue Management is what wins or loses wars.

  • Reduce workload by clarifying goals.
  • Create cadence and recovery cycles in the business.
  • CEO-level focus is needed
  • Take time off to rest, walk, and exercise every day. Stand up and walk around.
  • Turn off the TV and stop watching Twitter.
  • Take it slow. Don’t carry to heavy a load: you’ll get more done if you pace yourself over time.
  • If you’re a manager, help show people what “not to do.” Help people find focus, and don’t waste their time.
  • Turn off your Zoom camera and shorten meetings to 15 minutes if you can. Stop every meeting early.
  • Tell your team to take a week off. And don’t email while they’re gone. Things will be fine when they come back, and work will resume better than ever.
  • Be patient with your colleagues, peers, and yourself. People always want to do the best – right now it may just take a little more time.
  • Have some empathy for leadership. They are tired too. Ask them how they’re doing and let them know you care.

Jul
2020

mindfulness school teachers

categories: mindfulness

Effects of Mindfulness Training on School Teachers’ Self-Reported Personality Traits As Well As Stress and Burnout Levels

March 2020  Perceptual and Motor Skills 127(3):003151252090870 DOI: 10.1177/0031512520908708

Abstract
Among a sample of only female school teachers, we compared a mindfulness meditation (MM) training group (n = 19) with a waiting-list control group (n = 20) on several participant-completed questionnaires: the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, the Big Five Personality Inventory, the Teacher Stress Inventory, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. With these measures, we assessed the participants’ dispositional mindfulness, personality styles, and their stress and burnout. Following mindfulness training, teachers in the MM group showed higher trait mindfulness and conscientiousness and lower neuroticism and stress and burnout levels than teachers in the waiting-list control group. These results support the beneficial role of MM in individuals’ effective management of stressful conditions in the workplace.

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more on burnout in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=burnout

more on mindfulness in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=mindfulness

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