{"id":50659,"date":"2015-06-25T10:33:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=50659"},"modified":"2015-06-25T10:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T14:34:04","slug":"we-think-better-on-our-feet-innovant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/06\/25\/we-think-better-on-our-feet-innovant\/","title":{"rendered":"We think better on our feet [innovant]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/innovantblog.com\/post\/117693670876\/we-think-better-on-our-feet\">We think better on our feet<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from innovantblog.com<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovantblog.com\/post\/117693670876\/we-think-better-on-our-feet\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/41.media.tumblr.com\/d5f1bd6dc41853f2a41eea1ed931747d\/tumblr_inline_nnkr6sK6QP1qjkt1z_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" data-orig-width=\"1282\" data-orig-height=\"726\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt <span style=\"color: #800000;\">(emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A study from the Texas A&amp;M Health Science Center School of Public Health finds students with standing desks are more attentive than their seated counterparts. In fact, preliminary results show 12 percent greater on-task engagement in classrooms with standing desks, which equates to an extra seven minutes per hour of engaged instruction time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The findings, published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/14635240.2015.1029641\" target=\"_blank\">International Journal of Health Promotion and Education<\/a>, were based on a study of almost 300 children in second through fourth grade who were observed over the course of a school year. Engagement was measured by on-task behaviors such as answering a question, raising a hand or participating in active discussion and off-task behaviors like talking out of turn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Standing desks &#8211; also known as stand-biased desks &#8211; are raised desks that have stools nearby, enabling students to sit or stand during class at their discretion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The key takeaway from this research, Benden said, is that school districts that put standing desks in classrooms may be able to address two problems at the same time: academic performance and childhood obesity.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think better on our feet &#8212; from innovantblog.com Excerpt (emphasis DSC): A study from the Texas A&amp;M Health Science Center School of Public Health finds students with standing desks are more attentive than their seated counterparts. In fact, preliminary results show 12 percent greater on-task engagement in classrooms with standing desks, which equates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,87,84,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","category-learning-spaces","category-smart-classrooms","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50922,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659\/revisions\/50922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}