Christopher Pence

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Whats the best way to motivate a student either with Intrinsic or Extrinsic if it seems impossible to prove to them that the subject you are teaching can be useful to them?
interesting point and it does spark some ideas, Thanks for your reply!

I work at an audio school, I am seeing a large number of students that are only interested in working in electronic music even though our curriculum covers a lot more of audio production than this. I have found it a challenge trying to keep some of these students interested because they feel they are never going to use this knowledge after they graduate, even though a lot of it can and should be used. In your experience and in the terms of retention to make sure these students are able to complete the schools requirements to graduate. What steps… >>>

It was said in the lesson that we do 3 things with new information, we delete it, we distort it to fit in our lives, and we personalize it because it has value in our lives, My question is, Wouldn't distorting and personalizing be opposite sides of the same coin? Just seems to me that based upon the information that a person could get and be able to critical think, there would be very minimal differences between the two.
The safe environment, I like that, thank you
well what i was mainly asking for was certain strategies to take when trying to figure out what steps might be best per student to help them learn.
I was hoping this class would discuss more on how to engage students with certain types of psychological learning disabilities. Does anyone know what web sites would offer good advice on what different ways of encouragement an instructor can give a student and how to keep them focused on what they are trying to learn?
where are some good places to fins some learning assessments online in order to build your own?

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