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The Surprising Science of Motivation
Dan Pink, “The Surprising Science of Motivation”.
This talk is about business models, but I was thinking about it from an education perspective. Carrots and sticks don’t work; faced with creative labour, giving a higher reward for better/faster work fails to produce better/faster work. Grading, then, is the wrong direction if you want to teach someone [...]
UTML flickr widget
I needed a place to put it for now until we get the new website…
Major Chord Game
With thanks to thatjohn and girltarist, a major chord game on the Relay for Life route in Second Life:
Washington, DC
hi dad!
We’re in washington dc! Yesterday we went down to pennsylvania ave. to go to all the museums there. The first thing we saw was the Canadian Embassy. It was appalling. It’s entirely covered with flags. Some of them are so big entire families could use them to keep warm in the winter. I don’t [...]
Speak slowly, Scientists Warn
(GNN)– Rapid-fire news from conversation with friends or too many stories from newspapers could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.
Scientists say updates from friends and family, let alone media like printed text, are often too quick for the brain to fully digest.
New findings show that the streams [...]
Twitter and the Library
My latest all-consuming project is working to redesign/rework/completely renew our library’s website. It’s still early days, but there are certain lessons I’ve learned from my last all-consuming project (introducing coureware to the campus); you can never communicate too much. Even when you think you’re communicating enough, you probably aren’t.
From the worst days to the best [...]
Binding Arbitration
A morning conversation between me and Jason:
Rochelle: i am getting whacked in the face with a tail
Jason: check the contract. that’s a valid use of tail
Rochelle: hehe
Rochelle: he is sitting on my stomach
Jason: section 231b, subsection 13…
Jason: territorial rights and duties at dawn
Rochelle: so that’s where it is
Jason: bloody right. we got a grievance issue [...]
7 things you probably didn’t know about me
The rules:
1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged.
I was tagged by Catspaw.
1. Everyone thinks my favourite colour is pink, because I have [...]
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