#Highered and fellow #pedagogygeeks, in the spirit of talking about teaching and learning, the heart of our work, and not just fall planning insanity, a thread on boredom and attention:
I've been thinking lately that #highered has a boredom problem. AND, it also has a "fill up every space and leave no time for contemplation and reflection" problem. Been chewing on this and would love to know your thoughts.
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One of John Medina's brain rules: We don't pay attention to boring things.
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Medina: "The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded — and retained."
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We have a lot of boring content and presentation out there in our work, in our courses as well as #profdev/#facdev. And people aren't paying attention...
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But I've also seen arguments that boredom can boost creativity. That in the moment of "THIS IS SO DAMN BORING" our brains fight back by creating something fantastic.
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So I'm just curious how folks see this. Should we be aiming to limit boring things in recognition that no one's paying attention to them? But does that limit creativity?
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