Stop. Shoot. Send.

During Fall 2012 I took a course called New Literacies (LRC430/530) and was exposed to a great resource:
Lesson Plans for Developing Digital Literacies
Edited by Mary T. Christel and Scott Sullivan (2010)

In it is a lesson by Louis Mazza named "Stop. Shoot. Send: Using Phone Cameras to Find Meaning and to Engage Students" and I created a presentation reflecting on the plan (see also companion Student Self-Evaluation).

It came to mind in relation to the work of Richard Burnett and colleagues (referenced in last post ".b").

And now, I'm considering ways of using these ideas in my own lesson plans.

.b

Mindfulness in Schools: Richard Burnett at TEDxWhitechapel

TEDx overview on YouTube:
"
Stop. Breathe. Pay attention. "Our mental health and well-being are profoundly affected by where and how we place our attention". In this enlightening talk, Richard guides through a short mindfulness meditation, and shares his experience of teaching mindfulness in schools. He reveals some of the amazing benefits being mindful can bring to the classroom and inspires the audience with simple ways to bring more awareness to how we respond to our everyday experiences.

Richard Burnett is co-founder of the Mindfulness in Schools Project. With Chris Cullen and Chris O'Neill, Richard wrote the highly-acclaimed 9 week mindfulness course, .b (pronounced dot-b), designed to engage adolescents in the classroom. He is a teacher and Housemaster at Tonbridge School, the first school in the UK to put mindfulness on the curriculum, an event covered by press, TV and radio in early 2010. Since then, thousands of young people have been taught .b in a wide range of educational contexts, from independent girls' schools like St Pauls to Young People's Support Services for those excluded from school. .b is now being taught in the UK, USA, Germany, France, Finland, Denmark, Holland and Thailand. For more information on the Mindfulness in Schools Project go to www.mindfulnessinschools.org
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Mindful Eating vs. Mindless Eating

Gaiam posted an excerpt from "Savor: Mindful Eating Mindful Life" called Zen your Diet: Thich Nhat Hanh on 7 Ways to Eat Mindfully


Brian Wansink, Ph. D., author of "Mindless Eating: why we eat more than we think," offers extensive research on the psychology of consumption. The findings of Wansink's work provides us with many reasons to take up mindful eating practices as described by Thich Nhat Hanh and others.