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Kristin L. Fitzsimmons – Communication Teacher, 2025
This activity challenges students to establish media usage rules for a 30-day digital declutter, during which time they challenge themselves to disengage from distracting digital media. Students write self-assessments about their media habits and relationship to media before beginning the declutter and after they have finished the 30-day…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Digital Literacy, Learning Activities, Mass Media Use
Lederer, Susan Hendler – Young Exceptional Children, 2018
Shared book reading is defined as the interactive process of engaging children with text and illustrations. Through shared book reading, children learn to enjoy the reading process and appreciate different genres of literature, such as story books, alphabet books, and rhyming books. They acquire foundational skills that lead to reading success,…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
Fife, Jane – Composition Forum, 2017
Writers must learn to control factors that influence the ability to focus, especially in what some call a culture of distraction. In our efforts to promote metacognition and flexible writing processes, writing teachers need to engage students in study and discussion of factors in our temporal, social, media, social media, and attentional…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Processes, Undergraduate Students, Attention
Smallwood, Jonathan – Psychological Bulletin, 2013
Cognition can unfold with little regard to the events taking place in the environment, and such self-generated mental activity poses a specific set of challenges for its scientific analysis in both cognitive science and neuroscience. One problem is that the spontaneous onset of self-generated mental activity makes it hard to distinguish the events…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attention, Perception, Theories
Bernay, Ross; Graham, Esther; Devcich, Daniel A.; Rix, Grant; Rubie-Davies, Christine M. – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2016
Children today face increasingly high stress levels, impacting their well-being. Schools can play a crucial role in teaching social and emotional skills; therefore there is a need to identify effective interventions. This mixed-methods study of 124 elementary school students from three New Zealand schools aimed to (1) assess if children…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Well Being, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
Brown, Kirk Warren; West, Angela Marie; Loverich, Tamara M.; Biegel, Gina M. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
Interest in mindfulness-based interventions for children and adolescents is burgeoning, bringing with it the need for validated instruments to assess mindfulness in youths. The present studies were designed to validate among adolescents a measure of mindfulness previously validated for adults (e.g., Brown & Ryan, 2003), which we herein call…
Descriptors: Intervention, Validity, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals)