How many students have been reprimanded for daydreaming? How many of those same students could have produced exemplary work if, instead of receiving reprimands, they received encouragement? Let’s go one step further.
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Let It Go: The Benefits of Mind Wandering
We live in a world full of distractions. I’ve written previously about the benefits of meditation for attentional focus and learning, we’ve provided tips for students on how to ignore irrelevant information while studying, and provided resources for how to reduce mind-wandering. And while it is important that we be able to focus when we need to, I want to reassure all the daydreamers out there that letting your mind wander every now and then can actually be really beneficial.
Weekly Digest #110: Creativity in Unlikely Places
Ideas related to creativity pop up throughout this blog: we discuss how retrieval practice and spacing can actually increase creativity; how creative problem solving can benefit from sleep, and how to develop creative critical thinking skills.
Retrieval and Spaced Practice Sound Great, but Are They Just for Memorization?
We recently received this question at a workshop we ran for K-12 teacher and leaders. After hearing the research on spaced practice and retrieval, one might wonder: What do these strategies do to students’ abilities to make inferences, apply what they know, and think creatively?
Weekly Digest #43: Unleash Your Creativity
Steve Jobs once said: “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because ...