A rainy morning grading papers in Starbucks . When I open the Starbucks log-in page, an article catches my eye: "What a Scuba Diver with a Spinal Cord Injury Has to Teach Us About the Learning Process." Of course, I have to follow the link to Good Magazine, an eMag sponsored by Starbucks. The title is a tad misleading. The article has great things to say about motivation and character, and how those affect the learning process. In that respect, it's well worth reading. Less micro-detailed than your average academic article on the same subject, which is good. The article does an excellent job of explaining how motivation works in the learning process, and admits the one thing we already know--that we don't really know how to motivate students, not yet.
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