{"id":2210,"date":"2011-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=2210"},"modified":"2011-09-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"weve-won-the-war-on-boredom-and-thats-a-bad-bad-thing-52-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/weve-won-the-war-on-boredom-and-thats-a-bad-bad-thing-52-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve won the war on boredom and that\u2019s a bad, bad thing \u2013 52 Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote class=\"posterous_short_quote\"><p>Turn off, be quiet and think. It\u2019s OK, I promise<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"posterous_quote_citation\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/52tiger.net\/weve-won-the-war-on-boredom-and-thats-a-bad-bad-thing\/\">52tiger.net<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is a great post. I guess we are a long way from stopping pupils being bored in school. I do wonder if the new curriculum is building in any quite time. I recently talked to a teacher trialing nintendo DSi in class and was surprised to hear the idea that a spell of maths on the DSi gave the children a quiet spell in the midst of their active maths. I know my mind works differently when I am cut off and value those times. Back in my childhood  I am sure my mind ran riot during quiet times in my learning as we cranked through a repetitive task be it a big page of fractions or binka.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn off, be quiet and think. It\u2019s OK, I promise via 52tiger.net This is a great post. I guess we are a long way from stopping pupils being bored in school. I do wonder if the new curriculum is building in any quite time. I recently talked to a teacher trialing nintendo DSi in class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-zE","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}