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Thu Oct 6

Tribute to Steve Jobs

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Thu Sep 1

Do rewards favour learning?

Kathie Nunley reports:

“Using incentives to reward “input” seems to work much better than incentives for “output”. For example, offering rewards for reading can be productive whereas offering rewards for good grades doesn’t seem to work. And remember that rewards only work if people know what they need to do or change - merit incentives rarely work if the person is doing their best already.”

David Bergin: Use and MisUse of Incentives in School Settings. Presented at the
American Psychological Association’s National Conference, Washington DC. August 5, 2011”

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Sat Aug 27

Reported Speech (repet)

@ 2nd PIE (advanced)
Re: Inspiration 4- Unit 06

Would you like to practise Reported Speech? - The following links were shared earlier this year for 2nd IE, but here they go again in case you…

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Sat Aug 6

"Cuestión de honor" (¡recreo!)

Yesterday I told some of my students about “Don Rodrigo” and “Les Luthiers”… but they didn’t know what I was talking about!
This is for you all to learn what I was talking about:

Enjoy! (si…

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Fri Jul 29

“ En el diálogo no se intercambian palabras sino escuchas…escuchar es una actitud que estimula al otro a desplegar sus inteligencias.
Escuchar es educar. Ayudar al otro a abrirse…
Escuchar es aprender y alcanzar grados de sabiduría. Sabio no es el que sabe, sino el que sabe que puede saber más, sin cesar Barylko, Jaime (2007); Cómo criar hijos más o menos felices; ed. DeBolsillo. (pp. 64-5)

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