Tag Archives: motivation
The Weekly Update: January 3 -9
Why Teachers Should Blog, Shelly Blake-Plock How to Save Money by Migrating to Cloud Computing, Klint Finley When Passion Drives Instruction No Child Is Left Behind, The Innovative Educator
Thoughts on Student Motivation
Dan Pink delivered an interesting talk on motivation and the problems associated with extrinsic motivation. According to Pink, research has shown that certain sorts of extrinsic incentives or what Pink refers to as “contingent motivators” actually dull thinking and stifle … Continue reading
The Weekly Update: August 24 – August 30
How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class– Tristan de Frondeville, Edutopia A Challenge to the Multitask Assumption– Clive Shepherd, Clive on Learning Alpine Online Case Study– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class Models for Learning Questions– Tony Karrer, eLearning Technology The Science … Continue reading