As the race toward the end of the term accelerates, the Teaching and Learning Collaborative encourages faculty to take a look at this brief article on “Moving From Multi-tasking to Mindfulness,” in which professor Kristin Rousch describes how to help students focus their attention rather than fracture it. The article provides several specific strategies to use in classes from nearly any academic discipline, as well as a cogent rationale for weaning students away from their fragmented approaches to cognitive tasks. All this can be gleaned from an article that takes as long to read as it does to sip a cup of tea…mindfully, of course.
For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.