{"id":5315,"date":"2015-08-05T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2015-08-05T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T15:03:59","slug":"theres-such-a-thing-as-a-study-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/05\/theres-such-a-thing-as-a-study-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Such a Thing as a Study Drug?"},"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>Because, you know, drugs are always the answer. How often do we (as instructors) actually consider what kind of pressure we are putting on our students. Why do we do it? Many will tell you that it is about keeping the standards high. You know, academic excellence and all that. But is it really?<\/p>\n<p>This article claims that we live in a &#8220;culture of excellence&#8221;. I disagree &#8211; what we actually live in is a culture of competition and success measured largely in dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe live in this culture of excellence,\u201d said Michael McCutcheon, a counseling psychology phD candidate at New York University, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/a\/forum\/R201412180900\" target=\"_blank\">KQED\u2019s Forum<\/a>, \u201cand if you are at a competitive high school and you know the culture really only celebrates success or money, then everything is riding on this test.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What McCutcheon is describing here has very little to do with excellence. That&#8217;s part of the problem &#8211; success and money do not, I repeat NOT equal excellence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2015\/02\/24\/teaching-kids-to-learn-without-study-drugs\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Study-drug.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2015\/02\/24\/teaching-kids-to-learn-without-study-drugs\/\">Teaching Kids How to Learn Without Study Drugs | MindShift | KQED News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the article suggests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The adults in students\u2019 lives play a big role in how much stress they experience.<\/li>\n<li>A balanced life that includes strong time management skills,<\/li>\n<li>at least 9.5 hours of sleep per night and<\/li>\n<li>a moderate number of extracurricular commitments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How come there is no mention of the responsibility that we as instructors have for this? Aren&#8217;t WE the one&#8217;s who are supposed to be setting the example?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really quite easy to change the culture from one that worships money and winning, to one that rewards actual achievement. Read my posts on <a title=\"8 Part Series on Gamification as Reigeluth\u2019s Post-industrial Paradigm of Instruction: Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/13\/8-part-series-on-gamification-as-a-post-industrial-paradigm-of-instruction-part-1\/\">gamification <\/a>to find out how.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a <a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/Gamification\" target=\"_blank\">website <\/a>that provides additional info (and a book coming).<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-5315'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(5315);\" 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(5315);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(5315);\">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>Because, you know, drugs are always the answer. How often do we (as instructors) actually consider what kind of pressure we are putting on our students. Why do we do it? Many will tell you that it is about keeping &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/05\/theres-such-a-thing-as-a-study-drug\/\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,352,369,373,24],"tags":[388,126,393],"class_list":["post-5315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-gamification-2","category-higher-education","category-students","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-gamification","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1nJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7308,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2019\/06\/18\/worth-sharing-opinion-why-cant-everyone-get-as\/","url_meta":{"origin":5315,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: Opinion | Why Can\u2019t Everyone Get A\u2019s?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Excellence is not a zero sum game. 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