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Mindfulness-based Strategies for Learning

Tonight I watched a second 2020 Lilly session by Dr. Leslie Cizmas from Texas A&M. Cizmas defined mindfulness as “the practice of maintaining a non-judge mental state of heightened or complete awareness of one’s thoughts, emotions, or experiences on a moment-to-moment basis” based on Merriam Webster. There is no specific technic. Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn started […]
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Questions, Generation, and Provocative Metacognition

Barry Sharpe from Western Governors University gave a thought provoking recorded talk at the Lilly Conference I was able to watch tonight as Amada fell asleep. Sharpe invokes Socrates and the teacher as a gadfly and midwife to encourage us to use practice questions that push students to overcome desirable difficulties and self-reflect on their […]
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