MINDFUL LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Inter-Faculty Seminar December 30, 2014 10 am – 12 noon
Location : Boromrajkumari building, Room 707
An ancient practice rooted in Asia’s wisdom cultures, “mindfulness (sati)” has found new application as a secular form of learning – “mindful learning” — which seems particularly suited to the dynamics of the digital age. In the United States, On an international basis, applications of mindfulness are being integrated into pedagogy, curriculum, and innovative professional development programs in a broad spectrum of academic and professional fields such a medicine, engineering, education, and even architecture, sports, and the arts.
In an anticipation of a Summit meeting called Mindfulness 2016, the Faculty of Arts (Center for Ethics of Science and Technology) is organizing an inter-faculty coalition at Chulalongkorn whose purpose is to introduce new international practices of mindfulness to Chulalongkorn University across all disciplines. In the first of a series of informal, brief seminars on this topic, the Engineering Faculty of Chulalongkorn hosts a discussion that considers how Chulalongkorn’s professional schools and faculties might incorporate mindfulness as a factor in pedagogy, curriculum and innovative professional-development systems.
10:00 am: Welcome by Dean of Faculty of Engineering.
10:10 am: How “mindfulness” evolved from Asia and became integrated into Western science, technology and professional development, Prof Soraj Hongladarom, Director of Center for Ethics of Science and Technology
10:30 am: Mindful Learning” as a factor professional development in the West and its Implications for Thailand: The Example of Medical Education, by Dr. Sermsak Lolak, George Washington University Medical School.
11:00 am: Mindful Learning in K-12 Education (The Example of DSI and implications of Thai Education, by Khun Paron Israsena, Chairman, DSIL School, King Mongkut University
11:30 am: Exploration of Mindful Learning in the Engineering and Computer Science Academia and Professions: The Relevance of Education 4.0,by f Prof Craig Warren Smith and Dr. Chairat Phongphanee.
HR persective: Example of Awake@Intel,and “Look Inside Yourself,”
Education 4.0 as a model of student-centered, creative, collaborative learning.
Can Mindful Learning be integrated into Education 4.0 at Chula Engineering?
11:50 am: Discussion of Follow Up Options
Center for Science, Technology, and Society 