Okay, I confess that I just couldn’t leave this one alone. Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/y5pple4 Botox. Emotions. Do we stifle our ability not just to convey emotions to others, but also to feel it for ourselves, by paralyzing the physical mechanisms in our faces by which we demonstrate our feelings? I don’t think this would [...]
This article from last week about good and effective teachers being the most critical piece of successful education had some interesting points. Teachers are clearly the most important resource our children have during their hours at school. Indeed, research has shown that even one solid connection in a child’s life can alter his or her [...]
http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1796 We’ve talked before about emotions being contagious. Well, here’s a study that was done at the University of Chicago about social networks that discovered that lonely people actually spread that loneliness to others around them – friends, neighbors, anyone they come into contact with. The most interesting thing about this study for me is [...]
Here’s a posting from the ‘Race to Nowhere’ Facebook site today: “This week I was struck by a comment at a faculty in-service day recognizing the packed schedule left little time for reflection and processing. This is our kids experience every day, and they come home to more work. Do our young people have adequate [...]
Make Magazine has an interesting piece on emotionally interacting with a digitally created piece of art in their January 2010 issue. The two links below are the creator’s own website showing the ‘creature’ and then the link to the Make Magazine blurb titled ‘Emotional Aquatics’. The article goes into a little bit of depth about [...]
This was an interesting little personal expedition for me. Here is a site that chose 40 photographs depicting a range of emotions. http://tinyurl.com/cr3p2x I just scrolled though them and had several distinct reactions. First off, I felt the pictures were a little contrived. They’re all beautiful photographs designed to elicit reactions. However, I noticed about [...]
I hope there’s some talk out there about the film ‘Race to Nowhere’ that’s currently traveling around the country. In the interest of getting the word out, here are my impressions. If you’re not familiar with the movie, director Vicki Abeles has made a film about education in the U.S. and the myriad of ways [...]
From Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang from USC. Literally, she means embodied – the two are not able to be separated. Here’s three more: “Emotions are not add ons that interfere with cognition.” “The message from social and affective neuroscience is clear: no longer can we think of learning as separate from or disrupted by emotion, [...]
At the conference yesterday, Dr. Josh Aronson from NYU gave a fantastic talk about what he and his colleagues call ‘stereotype threat.’ Essentially, stereotype threat is anxiety caused by any sort of stereotype or worry which in turn causes your ‘intelligence’ level to drop. His lab has studied many, many different versions of this and [...]
Okay, so I have to admit I had a real ‘aha’ moment today at the Learning and the Brain Conference. To some it may seem like a ‘duh’ moment instead ( I won’t fault you at all for thinking that!) but to me this represented a real shift in my thinking about SEL skills and [...]