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Bill Genereux

Is Praise Undermining Student Motivation? | Faculty Focus - 0 views

  • Because failure is one of the most important tools for learning, growth requires a mindset that embraces challenge and the potential for failure.
  • when forced to do a difficult problem they will quickly give up if failure appears on the horizon
  • They start thinking that the goal of school is praise, or grades, rather than learning
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  • isk-adverse in an effort to prevent blows to their self-esteem
  • Dependency on praise stunts growth, creates a fragile psyche, and even a sense of helplessness that undermines achievement
  • educe respect for the instructor
  • praise for effort
  • praise the process, rather than the product
  • praise for process is far more effective than praise for product
  • the goal of education is to reach standards of excellence, not gain teacher approval.
Bill Genereux

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • yanked violently out of the context
  • reflexive critique of white privilege
  • well-meaning people, in a crowd, often take punishment too far.
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  • He retweeted it to his 15,000 followers
  • If she was going to be made to suffer for a joke, she figured she should get something out of it. “I never would have lived in Addis Ababa for a month otherwise
  • Sam Biddle
  • her shaming wasn’t really about her at all. Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing.
  • Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took Sacco down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so. Their motivation was much the same as Sacco’s own — a bid for the attention of strangers — as she milled about Heathrow, hoping to amuse people she couldn’t see.
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