{"id":223,"date":"2009-08-21T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2010-05-08T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T17:42:33","slug":"discovering-stuff-a-k-a-seeking-is-one-of-our-most-powerful-motivators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/08\/21\/discovering-stuff-a-k-a-seeking-is-one-of-our-most-powerful-motivators\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering stuff (a.k.a. Seeking) is one of our most powerful motivators."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>That explains a lot. But, how much of it is useful (i.e. productive) and how much is mindless chasing of lights? And what does this say about people who seem to have little or no interest in seeking? AND how do we use this to help motivate people when we are teaching?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting article.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2224932\/pagenum\/all\/\">Seeking<span> <\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><span>How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that&#8217;s dangerous. <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span>By Emily Yoffe<\/span><span>Posted Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, at 5:40 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-223'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(223);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(223);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(223);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>That explains a lot. But, how much of it is useful (i.e. productive) and how much is mindless chasing of lights? And what does this say about people who seem to have little or no interest in seeking? AND how &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2009\/08\/21\/discovering-stuff-a-k-a-seeking-is-one-of-our-most-powerful-motivators\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-3B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1949,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/06\/spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives-forbes\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":0},"title":"Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives (Forbes)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Timely. 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This is the response I've been seeking for those Educationists who are forever repeating these myths. Often those who generate more heat than light here are those who profess to be experts, namely\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5027,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/09\/on-sessionals-aka-adjuncts\/","url_meta":{"origin":223,"position":4},"title":"On Sessionals (aka Adjuncts)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Came across this comment on sessional instructors while wandering the web the other day: Educational Technology Professor: The Value and Contribution of Sessional Instructors - Diverse Expertise and Relevant Professional Experience. \u00b7 The majority of GPE Sessional instructors hold full time employment elsewhere, and teach one or two courses per\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Picture17","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Picture17-300x226.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}