The Need for Parameters

The other morning, I was half watching Oswald with my kids while we snuggled on the couch: my kids eyes glued to the pre-school program, mine on my Kindle reading up on The Help.    Every so often, I would get distracted and glance up to the TV to watch the odd characters go through [...]

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Rewards and Incentives

Earlier this week I wrote a post called Reward Not! It was prompted by my getting multiple catalogs filled with colorful pages of those small, useless toys bought by teachers who keep them in their classrooms for rewards and prizes.  In the same time frame, I was reading Drive by Daniel Pink.  In this book, [...]

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Reward Not!

I’ve been reading Drive by Daniel Pink and it is amazing.  (I’ll be posting more about this book later this week.)  At the same time, I’m receiving a variety of catalogs in the mail in anticipation for back to school.  On the one hand I am learning about intrinsic motivation: the idea that we have [...]

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