Lenore+Catalano

Your do-now: Write down as many different uses that you can think of for the following objects:

1. a brick:

building a wall throwing it make a paper weight stop a leak in a wall use it to step on to reach something start a garden layout crush it and make pebbles hold down a balloon hold a door open make a piece of furniture level cooking break out of jail

2. a blanket:

lay down on it wrap yourself or someone else in it to keep warm use it as a curtain hide something under it ball it up and use it as a pillow use it for a picnic make a ghost costume make a cape make a tent make a dress/skirt out of it make a babushka use as shelter <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">kill weeds <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">car cover

__<span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Brain Rule that Caught my Interest: __ <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rule #4: People don't pay attention to boring things <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rule #10: Vision is our dominant sense <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">How could this affect my teaching: Having more time for the students to create visual representations of what they are researching as well as a written representation would help the rest of the class be more receptive to the main topics of their peers. <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Specific Lesson that I could modify: <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Allowing the students to create a final product of their choosing, not just a final paper, but an option of maybe a movie, website, drawing, gameshow, etc.

__<span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Where we draw the Line Activity __<span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">: <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">It was interesting to see the fluctuation of the teachers along the line depending on what question was stated. The positions of the teachers along the line was interesting because it showed that the teaching styles and beliefs of the teachers varied. The last question had most of the teachers between the gray area and the want of the students to learn, which shows that we as a faculty wish to believe that there is an intrisic want to learn that the students have.

__<span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Candle Issue: __ <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">The box from the matches/thumb tacks can be affixed to the wall with a thumbtack and then the candle can be put inside of it, stopping the candle wax from dripping.

__<span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Video Thoughts __<span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">: <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Rewards aren't motivating if you have to think...higher incentives lead to worse performance <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Straightforward rewards for simple tasks work better! <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Autonomy is our desire to be self-directed <span style="color: #a100ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">One day of undiluted autonomy makes the best results. - "you probably want to do something interesting, I'm just getting in the way"