Don’t you sometimes wish that a presentation would be a little less boring? Any time you go to a convention and sit in some of the conference chairs you wish the whole experience could be a little bit more dynamic, as it could certainly make the time pass by and perhaps you could get even more from the day. Lots of hard work goes into the design and creation of the chairs that we sit in today, to ensure that they are ergonomically comfortable, an easy task to maintain and move and cost-effective, also. Often there is room for creativity though and it was interesting to hear about an experiment in a New England secondary school recently, where school chairs were substituted by exercise balls.

You may well be acquainted with an exercise ball, particularly if you work out on a regular basis. You understand that they are basic, yet incredibly useful tools in any gym and can help to bolster and tone numerous types of muscle groups. You might not think, on the face of it, that they’re perfectly suited to use as a chair replacement. Yet study in the Mayo Clinic, a well respected institution, has already revealed that there are additional potential benefits to sitting on these balls as opposed to conventional chairs.

It seems that kids with attention problems are more engaged, that there was significantly less distraction and less noise within the classroom and those that tended to fidget a bit more were able to do so with a lot less impact.

Do you reckon this is the beginning of something big? Will any of us begin to see the congregation on all these exercise balls as opposed to church chairs next Sunday? Of course they wouldn’t be considered a good replacement for stacking chairs and would likely be very difficult to store in any large convention facility!

Nevertheless, food for thought for our classrooms and anything we are able to do to improve productivity making the learning experience better here may well be a good investment in our overall future.

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