Posted: Jul 25, 2014 5:42 am
Hmm. This doesn't appear to be nearly as interesting as I hoped it would be from the title.
"Mindfulness" means something entirely different to me than they appear to be all about in this article. To me, this should refer to teaching students how to independently see through bias, and think past rote behavior, and reason their way through thickets of established authoritative ideas, in order to practically apply themselves directly to what is happening in life, rather than just following instruction sets.
Instead, they seem here to have been caught up in a faddish sort of convoluted and over complicated system of trying to avoid students becoming side tracked from the desired rote learning, by actively encouraging them to distract themselves even further, in the name of mindlessly following a new education concept fad.
Oh well.
"Mindfulness" means something entirely different to me than they appear to be all about in this article. To me, this should refer to teaching students how to independently see through bias, and think past rote behavior, and reason their way through thickets of established authoritative ideas, in order to practically apply themselves directly to what is happening in life, rather than just following instruction sets.
Instead, they seem here to have been caught up in a faddish sort of convoluted and over complicated system of trying to avoid students becoming side tracked from the desired rote learning, by actively encouraging them to distract themselves even further, in the name of mindlessly following a new education concept fad.
Oh well.