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We were talking about student (and thereby teacher) motivation. There is probably nothing new here, but it’s a good summary article- http://erhubbell.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/research-on-student-motivation/

MIT has all of there lectures online for free. They even have some classes designed for MS/HS. We were discussing how teachers are going to need to focus on the things that CAN’T be done online (i.e. Personalized attention)- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/

Dr. Lewin is a Physics Professor at MIT and he is a rock star. I used him as an example of the power teacher enthusiasm/motivation has on student motivation. Two links here- a NYTimes article and a youtube interview- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/education/19physics.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaALPa7Dwdw

Last session I casually made fun of those “did you know” powerpoint presentations that give all the scary statistics about how India has more honors students than we have students etc. Here are some different versions- http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=did+you+know+fisch&search_type=&aq=f

21st Century Skills is the new “thing” so if you google it, you’ll get a lot of stuff back, and it seems like there are many lists of these skills. In truth, all of these skills will be important in the 21st century, so all of the lists are ok. These things were probably pretty important in the 20th century too, but you know..... This is a link to a Tony Wagner clip who is a big player in the 21st century skill movement. Interesting stuff- http://2mm.typepad.com/usa/2009/05/harvards-tony-wagner-on-21st-skills.html

The coolest radio show on the planet- unrelated to the pdp, but highly entertaining and without a doubt worth a listen (podcasts are on the right side, just click one)- http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/


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