Attention and Flow
Important for success.
Folksonomies: education attention
Memes
03 JUN 2016
The FLOW State
How does it feel to be in "the flow"?
Completely involved, focused, concentrating - with this either due to innate curiosity or as the result of training
Sense of ecstasy - of being outside everyday reality
Great inner clarity - knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going
Knowing the activity is doable - that the skills are adequate, and neither anxious or bored
Sense of serenity - no worries about self, feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of ego - afterwards feeling of trans...
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03 APR 2015
Mindfulness to Teach Students How to Pay Attention
"One of the primary ironies of modern education is that we ask students to 'pay attention' dozens of times a day, yet we never teach them how," Amy Saltzman elucidates in PBS's Mindfulness: A Teacher's Guide. "The practice of mindfulness teaches students how to pay attention, and this way of paying attention enhances both academic and social-emotional learning."
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Mindful Schools recommends starting with a simple practice like mindful listening, where students sit in silence and notice ...24 MAR 2013
Attentive States of Mind
Whether you think of it as a sin, a
temptation, a lazy habit of mind, or a
medical condition, the phenomenon begs
the same question: why is it so damn hard
to pay attention?
It’s not necessarily our fault. As
neurologist Marcus Raichle learned after
decades of looking at the brain, our minds
are wired to wander. Wandering is their
default. Whenever our thoughts are
suspended between specific, discrete,
goal-directed activities, the brain reverts
to a so-called baseline, “resting” state—
but ...Folksonomies: attention mindfulness
Folksonomies: attention mindfulness
Why is it so hard to maintain? The brain has a default "resting" state of inattetiveness, multitasking confuses our attentiveness.
24 MAR 2013
Video Games Improve Attention
When we want to engage, believe me,
we can. And not only will we then make
fewer mistakes of perception, but we will
become the types of focused, observant
people that we may have thought we were
incapable of becoming. Even children
who have been diagnosed with ADHD can
find themselves able to focus on certain
things that grab them, that activate and
engage their minds. Like video games.
Time after time, video games have proven
able to bring out the attentional resources
in people that they n...Folksonomies: attention video games
Folksonomies: attention video games
And that attentional improvement rolls over into other areas of life.
22 JUN 2012
Attention Makes the Genius
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, and science depend on it. Newton traced back his discoveries to its unwearied employment. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, and heals diseases; without it Taste is useless, and the beauties of literature are unobserved; as the rarest flowers bloom in vain, if the eye be not fixed upon the bed. Everything else depends on being able to pay attention.
23 MAR 2011
Video Games are Work Made Fun
As you all know, games are about choices. Sid Meier famously defined games as "a series of interesting choices."
And choice is the most fundamental expression of Will.
How can an activity motivated by decisions, striving, goals and competition, a deliberate concentration of the force of Will, be used to transcend Will itself?
You might as well try to smother a flame with oxygen.
Game designers are taught that the ideal player experience is something called flow.
Flow is that magical stat...Possibly the most convincing argument that video games are not art.
23 JAN 2011
Attention is the Fundamental Literacy
Attention is the fundamental literacy. Every second I spend online, I make decisions about where to spend my attention. Should I devote any mindshare at all to this comment or that headline? — a question I need to answer each time an attractive link catches my eye. Simply becoming aware of the fact that life online requires this kind of decision-making was my first step in learning to tune a fundamental filter on what I allow into my head — a filter that is under my control only if I practice...Life online requires properly allocating our attention to maximize our productivity.
23 JAN 2011
Smaller Fragments of Information Command Attention
I do find that smaller and smaller bits of information can command the full attention of my over-educated mind. And not just me; everyone reports succumbing to the lure of fast, tiny, interruptions of information. In response to this incessant barrage of bits, the culture of the Internet has been busy unbundling larger works into minor snippets for sale. Music albums are chopped up and sold as songs; movies become trailers, or even smaller video snips. (I find that many trailers really are be...Kevin Kelly describes how he his attention is grabbed by smaller bits of information and his mind more active as a result.
References
03 JUN 2016
"Flow" and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (2016), "Flow" and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Retrieved on 2016-06-03Source Material [austega.com]
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03 APR 2015
The Mindful Educator
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Brochure/Pamphlet: McKibben, Sarah (November 2014), The Mindful Educator, Education Update, November 2014 | Volume 56 | Number 11 , Retrieved on 2015-04-03Source Material [www.ascd.org]
Folksonomies: education mindfulness
Folksonomies: education mindfulness
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21 MAR 2013
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Konnikova , Maria (2013-01-03), Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Viking Adult, Retrieved on 2013-03-21Source Material [books.google.com]
Folksonomies: psychology mindfulness
Folksonomies: psychology mindfulness
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22 JUN 2012
Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Willmott, Robert Aris (1851), Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature, Retrieved on 2012-06-22Source Material [books.google.com]
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23 MAR 2011
Opinion: Brian Moriarty's Apology For Roger Ebert
Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Moriarty, Brian (March 15, 2011), Opinion: Brian Moriarty's Apology For Roger Ebert, Game Set Watch, Retrieved on 2011-03-23Source Material [www.gamesetwatch.com]
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23 JAN 2011
An Intermedia with 2 Billion Screens Peering Into It
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Kelly, Kevin (January, 2010), An Intermedia with 2 Billion Screens Peering Into It, Edge Foundation, Inc., Retrieved on 2010-10-01Source Material [edge.org]
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23 JAN 2011
Attention is the Fundamental Literacy
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Rheingold, Howard (January, 2010), Attention is the Fundamental Literacy, Edge Foundation, Inc., Retrieved on 2010-10-01Source Material [edge.org]
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