Dinosaurs apparently smelled flowers, nature sounds become a multi-million dollar industry, and a perspective shift in what students value in writers

August 9, 2018August 8, 2018

“McKamey argues that the most important skill for a teacher is his or her ability to build trust with a student, which develops when students can sense that the educator is willing to hear their ideas, thoughts, and musings despite their challenges with grammar, low grades, or test scores in previous classes. This doesn’t mean that teachers need to cushion their feedback with fake praise, but it does mean, she thinks, that schools should help teachers develop skills to recognize what all students, including those who might be considered “low achieving,” do in their classrooms—instead of focusing mostly on what they don’t do or know.”

— Kristina Rizga, How to Make Students Care About Writing

★ Biophilia is a term coined in 1884 by a Pulitzer-prize-winning biologist at Harvard named Edward Wilson. It is a condition whereby we subconsciously seek connection with the rest of the natural world for the positive responses and feelings they create within us. Natural background noise recordings, like rain falling on rooftops and water rushing over a cliff, came out of this sciencing of our affinity for nature and has blossomed into some of the ASMR trends we see today.

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