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The article was published in 2004 and it foresee that Connectiviism would be the future of the education. Knowledge and learning has underwent significant changes after the emergence of current technologies. Learners are more likely to move into multiple and unrelated field. Besides formal education at school, informal learning become a more significant aspect and learners acquire knowledge through technologies, communities, work environment. Learning become a long lasting changed state because of the interaction between people and own life experiences.

The video talks about It delves into a more indepth questions, when simple motivation rewards and punishment doesn't work, what should we do to improve motivation. The real motivation is to create a "self positive image", a great identity.

IN RESPONSE to Chris Berdik's excellent article, "The End of Kindergarten" (Ideas, June 14), it is worth noting the view of the renowned Swiss developmental psychologist Piaget, who did extensive research into mapping the stages of cognitive development in childhood.

""We can finally say that you are not the sum of a letter grade, that your report card should not dictate where you will go and what you should do with your life." Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab interactive talks about blended learning and creating a personalized learning experience with help of technology and gaming. Games are the most popular form of entertainment and through participation they are an incredibly powerful data capturing tool. By knowing so much more about a learner and the help of collaboration we can revolutionize the way we deliver education and foster creativity in students."

This is an overview of cognitivism with roles and questions.

When people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory-those who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago-are tested for accuracy, researchers find what goes into false memories.

THE HUMAN MEMORY Since time immemorial, humans have tried to understand what memory is, how it works and why it goes wrong. It is an important part of what makes us truly human, and yet it is one of the most elusive and misunderstood of human attributes.

More How a Paralyzed Man Walked Again Why Do People Lie When They Can Easily Get Caught? Some skills you don't need past graduation: geometry, cursive, the ability to dissect a frog. But memorization is not one of them. Far beyond your final spelling bee, your memory either saves you from-or delivers you to-public humiliation.

"Called competency-based education, this new model looks at what students should know when they complete a certain degree, and allows them to acquire that knowledge by independently making their way through lessons. It also allows students who come into school with knowledge in a certain area to pass tests to prove it, rather than forcing them to take classes and pay for credits on information they already know."

What about the social factor?

"The thing is, "personalized learning" isn't our end goal. Creating learners is. Personalized learning is just the approach we use to get there "

Provide the person with sample challenges to pick from and show how they fit together towards that vision. DO provide reflection tools that help her/him identify their strengths and weaknesses for themselves DON'T just assume the person knows how to write a quality goal. DO create learning networks for people who have similar goals so they can problem solve together. DO help her/him structure their thoughts; DO provide her/him with a non-threatening platform These advises are very illuminating for educators. By saying "sample challenge", teachers are encouraged to using proper scaffolding to prepare student for great challenge. Through "helping to structure their thoughts ", teacher can coach students to analyze their own thinking and prepare them to practice meaningful reflection. And the most vital skills for true learners, is their reflective skills which allow them to analyze their method of learning, knowing their own strength and weakness and make modification to perfect their skills.

"Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward."

The TED talk further distinguish tasks into two types, and reveals that incentives doesn't work with the type of work requires cognitive skills. It points out that intrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery and purpose will work better to enhance efficiency. The situations in my classroom clearly backup this statement. Every time when I am doing simple translation word to word with my students in a timed situation, incentive such as candies, points work perfectly. Students performed well under that simply reward system. But when the task change into creating sentences with the given vocabulary, students' attentions shift from getting rewards to proving their ability or mastery. As a language teacher, I understand that as the difficult of the content increase, the effect of rewards decrease accordingly. To increase students' intrinsic motivation, cultivate self-motivated students is the key to success.

""PBL is the act of learning through identifying a real-world problem and developing its solution. Kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, not just at the end.""

"Perhaps that skills fits within a unit based on a topic or a theme, but each lesson works independently and can function without being embraced in a unit that connects them all in a learning story. " Personally I can resonate with this comment. I agree that most of the foreign language textbook are theme based, which put vocabulary and grammar within the given theme. But between different themes lack of coherence or connection. But using PBL might be an effective way to make an connection. I would like to share a own example of using PBL.The PBL is design a Travel Itinerary. Students impersonate travel agent to design a 2 days travel itinerary which includes 3 places to visit and 4 meals, provide price, compare different travel plans and persuade buyers to purchase their own travel plan. So in the PBL they are incorporate skills from different themes "Asking direction" "Travel" "Weather" "Shopping". It is also mentioned in the article that PBL "prepare the students for predicted the future", the PBL stays as authentic as possible. Also, as an ongoing assessment, the PBL can be used independently in each assessment and then at the end combined into a big assessments.

"Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity."

While at #PS2015, a graduate student at BYU asked me, "What other theories are being applied in education?" That may be the best question of the year and one that every school and district leadership team should ask themselves. So, what theories are being applied to public education?

Effective assertiveness is a balance between your needs and maintaining the relationship with the other person. In any interpersonal interaction, the moment we ask for something or have to say no to a request, we are making a choice; my discomfort or theirs? Too often, we error towards one side or the other.

"Both classical conditioning and operant conditioning are central to behaviorism, but students often get confused about the differences between the two. Use this study guide to familiarize yourself with some of the major topics related to classical and operant conditioning including key terminology and important thinkers."