They found that how interested the students were in the passage was thirty times more important than how “readable” the passage was.
Actually, practice doesn't always make perfect - new study - The Washington Post - 0 views
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Maybe the right question to ask is: Why do some people decide to practice a lot in the first place? Could it be because their first efforts proved mostly successful? (That’s a useful reminder to avoid romanticizing the benefits of failure.) Or, again, do they keep at it because they get a kick out of what they’re doing? If that’s true, then practice, at least to some extent, may be just a marker for motivation. Of course, natural ability probably plays a role in fostering both interest and success, and those two variables also affect each other.
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By contrast, when the hours were logged, and the estimates presumably more reliable, the impact of practice was much diminished. How much? It accounted for a scant 5 percent of the variance in performance. The better the study, in other words, the less of a difference practice made.[1]
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"The question now is what else matters." And there are many possible answers. One is how early in life you were introduced to the activity - which, as the researchers explain, appears to have effects that go beyond how many years of practice you booked. Others include how open you are to collaborating and learning from others, and how much you enjoy the activity."
The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ.com - 0 views
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the way that good ideas usually come into the world. They are, inevitably, constrained by the parts and skills that surround them.
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Nike announced a new Web-based marketplace it calls the GreenXchange, where it has publicly released more than 400 of its patents that involve environmentally friendly materials or technologies. The marketplace is a kind of hybrid of commercial self-interest and civic good. This makes it possible for outside firms to improve on those innovations, creating new value that Nike might ultimately be able to put to use itself in its own products.
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The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them
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Building School-Based Student Digital Book Clubs | MiddleWeb - 0 views
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So instead of focusing on skill development alone, we considered engagement.
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real readers find pockets of time during the day in which to squeeze some reading, known in her classes as “reading emergencies.” Highly portable digital devices make it much easier to exploit these pockets of time.
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responses to their reading on Kidblog.
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How a Bigger Purpose Can Motivate Students to Learn | MindShift - 1 views
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“However, the reality is that schoolwork is often neither interesting nor meaningful,” he said — at least, not in a way that students immediately get.
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a mindset of “self-transcendent” purposeful learning
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They’re learning how to learn, how to practice self-discipline and motivate themselves through frustrating roadblocks, and thus are preparing for adulthood.
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How a Bigger Purpose Can Motivate Students to Learn - Potential of a Purposeful Mindset http://t.co/wD1xRdOF7z via @MindShiftKQED #edchat
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