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Rethinking Drive & Motivation

I just read the following on the MiddleWeb's newsletter and it reminded me how much I learned reading Pink's last book - A Whole New Mind so let's read Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivate Us. I've gone ahead and scheduled our online book club meeting for the first week of December - Wednesday the 7th at 7pm EST. You can join the discussion by clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/MSP2Drive.

I'll send out reminders as the time nears - you can also go to the Events page and RSVP. Hope you'll join in the fun!

From MiddleWeb Newsletter: Scholastic’s Top Teaching blogger Stacey Burt recently discovered Daniel Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. In two posts (part 1, part 2), she shares his ideas about motivating students: both the principles (autonomy, mastery, purpose) and some everyday how-to’s. You can also hear Pink talk about motivation to learn and how students respond to his ideas in a 2011 video interview. PLUS: If you're a visual learner, join the 6 million people who've viewed Cognitive Media’s lively animation of Pink’s core thesis.

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Victoria Rydberg on October 10, 2011 at 9:26am

This is a great book! The findings support so much of what we know to be good education. There are strong ties to project-based learning, student-centered education, inquiry, service-learning, and more. I look forward to this discussion!

Permalink Reply by Kim Lightle on October 10, 2011 at 9:29am