"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."
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.