“Creativity”

Your essay conflates grades and measurement with a culture which focuses on grades and measurement

There is a growing technology, as the late Gerald Bracey once remarked, “that permits us to do in nanoseconds things that we shouldn’t be doing at all” (quoted in Mathews, 2006).  In fact, posting grades on-line is a significant step backward because it enhances the salience of those grades and therefore their destructive effects on learning.

We have a very similar teaching style which I enjoy because for the most part I work with people in engineering who have a very different style.

Overlearning

seek out more information (thank you google!) mid-conversation

“Being taught” (phrased in the passive voice) may remove that even farther as the activity falls on the teacher and the student is just the recipient.

“the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.”

it may be a small distraction, but it can actually keep me more present in the conversation.

ubiquitous, diatribe, what years millennials were born in, and the Tacoma Narrows Bridge obviously.

I Google big words

benefits of mindfulness

It’s not shoving information down their throats, teaching directly from the book, or death by powerpoint.

I think it’s our responsibility as educators to meet our students half way.

We obviously can’t follow them home and make sure they’re meditating for ten minutes or laying in bed without any distractions.

I personally believe mindfulness is an important part of self-care. It’s the ability to acknowledge and reflect on experiences, emotions, and thoughts without allowing them to overwhelm or control you. It’s giving positive energy to your thoughts, nurturing them, and allowing them to grow peacefully.

“the hippy aunt”

I don’t think my generation (1) knows that mindfulness exists, (2) knows what it is, (3) knows how to practice it, and (4) knows why they should practice it. It’s something that I believe a majority of my friends, peers, and colleagues could benefit from and yet none have any inclination to actively practice it.

‘in your own words, help your little brother to understand what osmosis is by designing an experimental illustration that tells him a story that pertains to his life history, which will make his friends laugh, but make his aunt and uncle proud of him, while getting him on the teacher’s favorite pet list’

smartness

As such, students blessed with retentive memories were deemed very smart while students that might not have this ability but are creative enough to truly understand the term and define it in their own way, are at a disadvantage.

The question, parameters, or context can influence my answer or plan of action by putting a box around the possibilities I feel are available to me.

I think it is so important to bring humor to important topics such as education, for many reasons.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso

I firmly believe my educational experience would have been drastically improved had I 1) been diagnosed with ADHD earlier

He made a very valid point about education: it is not a mechanical system, it’s a human system.

Personally, it seems that being a mindful learner means being actively aware of knowledge as it becomes available while critically evaluating its potential to be applied in a variety of present and future contexts.

I think that if we, as educators, can be more cognizant of the pitfalls within the educational system, then we will better recognize when students journey down the path into “Death Valley” and we can be ready to engage them in mindful learning to show them the path out.

1) been diagnosed with ADHD earlier

He made a very valid point about education: it is not a mechanical system, it’s a human system.

Personally, it seems that being a mindful learner means being actively aware of knowledge as it becomes available while critically evaluating its potential to be applied in a variety of present and future contexts.

They need to know that what they are doing is resulting in more than a number or letter that signifies their success or lack thereof.

They hate the schedules, demands, and structure

no matter how hard we try there will be some students who just can’t be reached in the higher education environment.

I think that if become a mindful learner it will help me to become a better professor, who can hopefully instill the importance of mindful learning onto my students.

This is most likely because I am so focused on my research projects that I don’t leave enough time to focus on my course work (for example I left writing this blog post until the very last minute again this week).

That being said, I fear that pedagogical enthusiasts might wrap themselves in the nuances of mindfulness and mindlessness. Heck, some might even decide to play the troll arguing for the need of a foundation of “mindlessness” in order to allow for “mindfulness” in later learning.

I think it is rather sad that the only class I can legitimately remember anything from is not even remotely related to what my major was at the time

I can apply tools to the future for without that “one time learning”

“students are struggling to find meaning and significance in their education”.

I would like to try such practices in a lecture that I teach, but I definitely need to sit down and think of how that could be done given the nature of my area.

semantics

I learned to resent administrative involvement and protest the idea that somebody can be assessed purely through standardized tests.

By being part of this team I was able to take the knowledge I learned in class and the knowledge I gained from reading books and papers to exercise my creativity through modeling, design, and analysis of the suspension for the car.

This class format really allowed us students to truly learn the ideas of uncertainty analysis and how it effects experimental setup by allowing us to perform a project on a topic that expressed our curiosity. In addition, the professor in charge didn’t have to come up with ideas/design experiments he just had to be there for support and guidance along the way.

But while studying engineering you are not really given an opportunity to express that curiosity.

So in the end, I think there is a small amount of diversity in the curriculum. Maybe not as much diversity as some think there should be.

learn engineering basics before they can branch out into classes where they build off of the basics.

I would like to take these three principles and use them to comb through undergraduate mechanical engineering curriculum to see if the three principles are carried out.

posits

“Mindfulness coupled with ill-intent = Conway.” -Me

“Facts, whether derived from science or not, are not context-free; their meaning and usefulness depend on the situation.“-Langer