I heard through the Games 4 Change mailing list about this article on motivations in gaming: http://immersyve.squarespace.com/gamification/ They talk about extrinsic rewards versus intrinsic, and they identify three intrinsic motivations that I quite like: Autonomy — We like to have meaningful choices and don’t like it when we cannot choose. We also feel satisfied when [...]

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My friend Catherine at Tom Snyder Productions showed me this video lecture of Ted Hasselbring talking about the research behind FASTT Math. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZSOUIhBR_o&p=2158D1315F3B41FC&index=1&feature=BF His basic points are: (1) one needs to memorize basic math facts (addition and multiplication tables) in order to do higher order math. The reason is to free up working memory for [...]

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