Tag Archives: education

Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students

October 25, 2008 – 1:30 pm

Being a long weekend I have finished a few books and one of the ones I should have blogged about a while ago is “Doing School”. I brought this book from Amazon after having listened to the author on itunesU. The basic premise of the book is that the author followed five successful students [...]

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Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation

September 22, 2008 – 12:55 pm

Thanks to Derek for this one.

As I sat in a class this morning watching students labour over a task that only a few seemed genuinely engaged in, the teacher and I discussed what their motivation was for the task. Essentially the only reason they were doing anything in this lesson was to get the grade. [...]

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Learning to change

May 11, 2008 – 8:27 am

I always love finding new videos that just say how I feel so thanks to Rich White I found this one.

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