I continue to be impressed with news and resources from Dyslexia Tutor. This week I read an article from the Boston Globe entitled “Attention: There’s Evidence That It’s Teachable.” How many times in the past 35+ years of teaching have I said to a student, “pay attention”? Way too many. Here are some quotations from the article to pique your interest:
- “After decades of research powered by fresh advances in neuroimaging and genetics, many scientists are drawing a much clearer picture of attention, which they have come to see as an organ system like circulation or digestion, with its own anatomy, circuitry, and chemistry.”
- “…attention is viewed as a complex system comprising three networks, or types of attention: focus, awareness, and ‘executive’ attention, which governs planning and higher-order decision-making.”
- “In one study, Zylowska and colleagues reported that eight weeks of mindfulness meditation – a technique designed to improve attention and well-being largely by focusing on breathing – boosted both powers of focus and self-control in 24 adults and eight teens with ADHD.”
I hope to learn more by looking at the research cited in the article.
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