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Bill, I like the cut of your jib.

-M



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From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Goffe
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 2:49 PM
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Subject: Social Pedagogies

I was reading "Social Pedagogies as a Framework for Online Learning"
http://derekbruff.org/?p=1599 and I immediately thought of TBL. While one focus of this article is on-line learning and technologies (the author literally wrote the book on clickers), it seems to me that the success of TBL comes from its very social nature. 

I was very much struck by this part:

    Ken [Bain] argued that deep learning is hard work and thus requires
    well-motivated students. Social pedagogies can provide sufficiently
    strong motivations since representing knowledge for authentic
    audiences can satisfy students’ desires for connection and sharing.

If application exercises are ungraded (as most of us seem to do), it seems to me that much of the student motivation for them comes from peer effects, which would seem to be mostly intrinsic. 

Also, Dan Pink's book "Drive" describes how extrinsic motivations leads to poorer results in cognitively demanding tasks. His TED video does a good job of summarizing his main points. It very much seems to fit into this framework. Finally, "Grading Practices: Liabilities of the Points System"
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/grading-practices-liabilities-of-the-points-system/
makes much the same point.

    - Bill

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Bill Goffe
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