#mindamp

Is it crazy to have big plans?Is it wild to think you can actually swim in the deep

end?Is it outrageous to think I could teach children these

literacies?

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Learning happens in the space between where you are an where

you want to be.

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Learning as scratching a personal itch.

Getting Things Done

“You should only have a thought once unless you like having that thought.”

I think I ended up with too much on my plate because I didn’t have a reliable

system for coming back to ideas.

Getting Things DoneHorizontal and Vertical

Review the “open loops” weekly.

Flow & Csikszentmihalyacheek-SENT-me-high

WikipediaFlow Defined ”“Flow is the mental state of

operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in feeling of energized focus, full of involvement, and enjoying in the process of the activity.

Csikszentmihalyi Flow Defined”

“The satisfying, exhilarating feeling of creative accomplishment and heightened functioning.

Flow inducing activities

Flow inducing activities

Goal

Obstacles

Increasing Challenges

Voluntary Participation

Flow inducing activities @school

Clearly stated goals

Worthy obstaclesIncreasing Challengeswith ongoing feedback

Willing Participation

•satisfying work

•the experience, or at least the hope of being successful

•social connection

•meaning

Jane McGonigal Happiness

Marshmallow Walter Mischel

•planning

•working memory

•attention

•problem solving

•verbal reasoning

•mental flexibility

•task switching

Executive Function

Daniel KahnemanIntelligence Defined”

“Intelligence is not just about the ability to reason, it is the ability to find relevant information [in memory] and to deploy attention when needed.