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 Teaching, 2001, Larry Cuban Google Apps Gives Schools a Better “Walled Garden” for Student E-mail,...
Read MoreThoughts 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 creativity. Even though the scientific research conducted over the past forty years seems to support this theory, much of the business world, on the other hand, is unwilling to incorporate these findings into the structures it uses to manage people. According to Pink, “What’s alarming is that our...
Read MoreThe 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 of Motivation– Danial Pink, TED More Questions Than Answers on Google Books– Tom Krazit, cnet The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine– Robert Capps, Wired Look Ma, No Pen! Electronic Impulses Can Reproduce Handwriting– Hadley Leggett, Wired TPACK...
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