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Fast Company: Facebook Paying Users for Ad Views: The Good, The Bad, and The Psychologically Ugly

May 8, 2011 by Shannon

May 8th 2011.  Famed psychologist Edward Deci of the University of Rochester, and spotlight researcher in The New York Times bestseller, Drive, tells Fast Company that rewards “change the relationship” between people and the activities they enjoy doing for free. “Once you begin rewarding them, they start to see it as something they do to get the reward.” He continues, “Doing the...

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HUFFINGTON POST: Face to Face: Virtual Teachers Can’t Replace the Real Thing

January 27, 2011 by Shannon

January 27th 2011. The New York Times recently reported that Florida has adopted a plan that places more than 7,000 students in Miami-Dade County public schools in virtual classrooms where there are no teachers. Regardless of method, it is generally agreed that academic achievement is linked to students’ being motivated to learn. University of Rochester...

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HUFFINGTON POST: Spectator Nation: Are You a Screen Junkie

January 11, 2011 by Shannon

January 11th 2011. If there’s one thing the U.S. economy is booming in, it’s the production of mass quantities of onlookers. We have become a nation of spectators, zoning into the glow of digital and high-def screens, cocooned in entertainment centers, oblivious to the sun in the sky, the breeze in the trees, and the...

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