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Daily Archives: August 26th, 2009

…Or Maybe Heaven After You’re Dead

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

This seems like a good time to call up this video narrated by Alan Watts, Life and Music, which Artichoke posted many, many months ago. I mentioned it to one of the other teachers I work with as an aside during a presentation on RTI at a staff meeting this afternoon. (AIMSweb is a [...]

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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Daniel Pink, author of the pop socio-psychology book, A Whole New Mind, which celebrates creativity and innovation as part of a supposedly new ethos in business management, takes up the problem of extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation in a TED lecture. He describes an experiment exploring the problem of functional fixedness, first performed in 1945. Functional [...]

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