Dan Pink, author of the popular Whole New Mind, offers insights into what research tells us about motivation, potential, and the value (or lack their of) of reward systems. It is a great video that has obvious implications for educators, especially those who feel that the seeming infallibility (and immediate gratification) of a carrot-on-a-stick is actually a hook without a worm. He also explores motivators that have long term benefits for learners and that help unlock the mind’s potential to think critically and creatively.
Dan Pink on the Science of Motivation
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"I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: an enterprising curiosity, an undefeatable spirit, tenacity in pursuit, readiness for sensible self denial, and above all, compassion."
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Haiti Earthquake Fundraiser Student Video from Jason Flom on Vimeo.
Several of my 5th grade students created this moving video to promote our upcoming fundraiser, “Haitian Food for Haitian Lives”.
Students in 4th, 5th, and 8th grades will be making, selling and serving a traditional Haitian meal followed by a bake sale to raise money for victims of Haiti’s earthquake. The students are also organizing a canned food, water, and toiletries drive in partnership with FAMU.
If you live in Tallahassee, please join us at 12:00 at 2524 Hartsfield Rd (Cornerstone’s campus) for a celebration of Haitian culture. Food, music, information and good will for all.
Meal: To include red beans & rice, Haitian salad, and fried plantains. $3 for kids & $5 for adults.
Bake sale: Range of goodies, range of prices.
For more information contact Jason Flom at jflom at cornerstonelc dot com
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TED Talks describes Gever Tulley this way:
A software engineer, Gever Tulley is the co-founder of the Tinkering School, a weeklong camp where lucky kids get to play with their very own power tools. He’s interested in helping kids learn how to build, solve problems, use new materials and hack old ones for new purposes. He’s also a certified paragliding instructor.
While this talk focuses nearly entirely on the Tinkering School, it leaves copious room between the lines for us to consider some of the larger ramifications in education reform. We know well enough that true understanding comes through experience, but often neglect to implement curricula that achieves such. Mr. Tulley, demonstrates the incredible potential in applying experiential education tools for inspiring exploration, cultivating curiosity, and planting seeds for understanding concepts in engineering, physics, and applied mathematics.
We could all take a page (or a gadget) out of his plan book.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Rev Al Sharpton, and former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich discuss learning, accountability, Race to the Top, and their bipartisan effort to affect change in our education system.
(I first saw this clip on The Efficacy Institute’s website.)
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Fri, Aug 28, 2009
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