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"The student’s eyes drift to the classroom window and the teacher’s voice fades from consciousness. The daydream begins. It’s a familiar scene, one we have likely both experienced as students and struggled against in our students as teachers. But daydreaming is not what it might seem. Recent research in both psychology and neuroscience makes clear that daydreaming is an essential part of mental processing, reasoning and, yes, even learning." 
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As Temple Grandin says, "the world needs all kinds of minds." and some of those minds "think in pictures". Doodling is a form of external thought that allows you to visualize the connections you are making while thinking. Scroll down to see Draft 2.
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Parents and teachers expend a lot of energy getting kids to pay attention, concentrate, and focus on the task in front of them. "What adults don’t do, according to University of Southern California education professor Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, is teach children the value of the more diffuse mental activity that characterizes our inner lives: daydreaming, remembering, reflecting." Read on to learn more about how "a lack of time to daydream may ...hamper kids' capacity to pay attention when they need to."
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If you have wondered if daydreaming makes students better learners then this article will provide 15 reasons as well as many resources. A few of the reasons listed are (all are quotes):
* Daydreaming is the mind's natural state
* Daydreaming helps with critical thinking and problem solving
* Daydreaming...greatly increases the mind’s ability to smoothly shift in the face of unanticipated events and situations.
An additional 12 items are listed.