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I am working the same stories, Mr Ewing, this is
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Installment eight in our magical unicorn year, understanding and embracing
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virtual learning.
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So I want to talk about something that's super important
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to me, dear to my heart.
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And that's break time and play time and the importance
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of understanding what that means in a virtual world.
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Um, research race search has shown that our brain actually
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needs break every about every 15 minutes.
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And that couldn't be even more true than in a
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virtual world.
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Our brain needs a break.
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And if we build that into what we're delivering, especially
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virtually were actually helping students build stronger brains and learning
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more. So about every 15 minutes you need to do
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what we actually learned about in this of video seven
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about helping suits release those on oxytocin.
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So I want to make sure we understand that break
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doesn't mean break break means taking a step away from
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what we're learning, not stopping the learning, and that's super
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important, so these brain breaks can look pretty much any
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way you want to do it.
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It's important that kids still stay engaged.
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A really good friend of mine, um, has created these
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brain breaks for a school district in the state of
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Washington. If you look it up, there are some really
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great resource is they have some great ideas, but there
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are a lot of ideas from brain breaks out.
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There could be a song that you do together as
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your class could be.
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A yoga that you do is a class.
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Could be a quick exercise is a lot of different
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things, and they should be short just quick.
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But remember, it's a break not breaking from learning.
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B r a take e, but a really good 11
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is lead a meditation.
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If you're not sure how to do it, do some
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research. Do a mindful moment where students actually get to
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just unplug and bring their levels down so that they
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could bring the learning back up.
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Now play time.
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It's gonna be hard during this time of virtual learning,
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but kids still need to have some time to play
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and socialize.
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So how does that look like in or what does
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that look like in a virtual world?
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But if there are home at residential learning, it could
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be a board game of family place together this needs
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toe happen outside their their technical learning time because this
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is also learning time as well.
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Kids need to play.
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We've gotta build that in.
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It actually could be a lesson that you do every
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day is here's our play lesson for the day, but
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it could happen in a virtual world to give a
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chance. All right, For the next 15 minutes, we're gonna
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have social time.
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So you guys have a chance to socialized with each
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other and I'll be back or bring you back together.
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But build it in, build that social time in we're
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no matter what it looks like.
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Play online games.
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One of my favorite Cisco Hope, and I've been doing
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it with my students in the virtual world and having
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a blast with it.
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Andi, watching them have so much fun together, make sure
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students understand that taking a break and playing with toys
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in their house or like I've talked about before, playing
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in a cardboard box Imagination time sparking it because you
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know what?
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Even as adults, we need this break time to we
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need playtime or this virtual coffee hour or whatever that
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our is gonna be.
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But We need it just as much as they need
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it. And that's a super important part of understanding why
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our brains need brain breaks and playtime and making sure
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board building it in that virtual.