Author: Martha Rush Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003843808 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 228
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Are your students bored in class? According to research, a majority of American high school students report being bored in class and fewer than 5% claimed that they were rarely bored during a typical day in school. Former journalist and veteran teacher Martha Rush decided this would not do for her Minnesota students. Moving beyond asking open-ended questions and making connections to their own lives, Martha began to engage her government, journalism, and economics classes in meaty discussions, competitions, simulations, and authentic work, like running a newspaper or starting a business. Building on her more than 800 interviews with high school graduates, she offers up strategies in all subject areas for active engagement, moving way beyond traditional passive memorization of information. She describes how to create innovative experiences in your classroom, and shares her own lessons and her students' work. Beat Boredom will help you join the ranks of teachers who have challenged the status quo and found ways to motivate even the most reluctant learners.
Author: Bryan Harris Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317926420 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 160
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Drive boredom out of your classroom - and keep it out - with the student-engagement strategies in this book. You'll learn how to gain and sustain the attention of your students from the moment the bell rings. Perfect for teachers of all subjects and grade levels, these activities go head-to-head with student boredom and disengagement, resulting in class time that's more efficient, more educational, and loads more fun!Author Bryan Harris, an expert in student engagement and classroom management, has extensive experience in K-12 motivation and brain-based learning. In this book, he brings togeth.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 1784932647 Category : Languages : en Pages : 99
Author: James Danckert Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674984676 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 289
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No one likes to be bored. Two leading psychologists explain what causes boredom and how to listen to what it is telling you, so you can live a more engaged life. We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn’t bad for us. It’s just that we do a bad job of heeding its guidance. When we’re bored, our minds are telling us that whatever we are doing isn’t working—we’re failing to satisfy our basic psychological need to be engaged and effective. Too many of us respond poorly. We become prone to accidents, risky activities, loneliness, and ennui, and we waste ever more time on technological distractions. But, Danckert and Eastwood argue, we can let boredom have the opposite effect, motivating the change we need. The latest research suggests that an adaptive approach to boredom will help us avoid its troubling effects and, through its reminder to become aware and involved, might lead us to live fuller lives. Out of My Skull combines scientific findings with everyday observations to explain an experience we’d like to ignore, but from which we have a lot to learn. Boredom evolved to help us. It’s time we gave it a chance.
Author: Bruce O'Neill Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822373270 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver on the promises of liberalism, O'Neill shows how the city's homeless are unable to fully participate in a society that is increasingly organized around practices of consumption. Without a job to work, a home to make, or money to spend, the homeless—who include pensioners abandoned by their families and the state—struggle daily with the slow deterioration of their lives. O'Neill moves between homeless shelters and squatter camps, black labor markets and transit stations, detailing the lives of men and women who manage boredom by seeking stimulation, from conversation and coffee to sex in public restrooms or going to the mall or IKEA. Showing how boredom correlates with the downward mobility of Bucharest's homeless, O'Neill theorizes boredom as an enduring affect of globalization in order to provide a foundation from which to rethink the politics of alienation and displacement.
Author: Mollie Keelan Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 407
Book Description
When we're well and truly bored, we pass time doing the most insignificant things that would probably never be of any use. However why not make productive use of 'passing time' on activities that you can complete in 30mins and are so mind engrossing, you're left wondering where has the time gone + you've got something to show for your boredom? Well look no further because here are 101 quick activities to do just that! Each take approx 30mins to complete, (some take longer), and before you start, I suggest that you get / make a Remind Me box. What is a Remind Me box? It doesn't have to be an actual box because any place where you can put paper or memorabilia safely for later retrieval will do! Places like a drawer, an old shoe box, a suitcase, a bag in a cupboard. What do you place in the box? Memories! The Remind Me box purpose is to bring joy, laughter or smiles wherever you look at the contents. This means when you're having an off day, you can look through the items in there and be reminded of a time when you were the 'best' you! There's also a scheduler included and space for reflection on the activity or for any other thoughts, doodles, notes. Okay, there's so many ways to pass time and here's 101 of them... Enjoy!!
Author: Augustin de la Peña Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031326857 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 645
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This book collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Peña (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredom—and other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainment—and its associated behaviors. Offering an interdisciplinary chronicle of boredom, from Antiquity to the present, special attention is paid to its daily experience as a ubiquitous phenomenon that informs cultural and political actions that continue to shape our society. Dr. de la Peña describes the obsolescence of the Western Commonsense View of Reality to propose a Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality, reconceptualizing boredom. The book theorizes the condition as both logical and emotional, an axis that has defined the sensibility of the modern era. This is a volume edited posthumously by Josefa Ros Velasco and Christian Parreno in homage to Augustin’s work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.
Author: Robert R. Smith Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1667682660 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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After killing a Martian, a man takes a strange artifact back to Earth. He soon realizes it's a time loop machine that repeats a 10-minute interval. At first it seems like a gift of extra time, but as the years pass in 10-minute cycles, the crushing weight of memories without rest begins to affect his mind. Is there any escape?
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