I’ve decided to upload to the document library my MS Word docs instead of posting. It’s laziness on my part, since I don’t have to hand convert the formatting back… plus it’s got some graphics that add to the experience. So far only 4 docs. There is no “session 4” since it’s my teaching partner who did that session, and he didn’t have a hand out.
Except I can’t really seem to find it from the main site. It’s buried in the “Media>libary” link from the admin site. Ok. So I’ll link to them:
Attentiveness session 1-hand out
Attentiveness session 2-hand out
Attentiveness session 3-hand out
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Interesting… will get back to you.
Hi Paul,
I started going through your handouts on attention, and I have to say that (a) they do take a lot of attention to go through and (b) I am really liking them, so far.
BTW, have you read Lewis’s “An experiment in criticism?” (About 140 pages.) In it, he puts some sustained effort into defining “good literature” as literature that can sustain “good reading”. I think that one aspect of this “good reading” might be a certain kind of attention, among other things. This might be a partial answer to the question about what separates good, focused reading from “media consumption”. In any case, when I am tired, I tend to want to do pleasure reading, which is easier… but also less rewarding?
And, the obligatory:
http://xkcd.com/356/
-BenRI
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