There's no real connection between these links, but they are things I've come across in my readings over the past couple of days and I thought they may be of interest:
1) Freedom: Internet blocking. A simple app that blocks all internet activity for a period of time in order to help focus our work offline. This has been recommended by a huge number of content creators and media professionals. Perhaps, it could find a role to play in our academic/residential environment as well.
2) Zotero: Pinterest for Researchers. I've not played with this much yet, but it has been recommended to me by some friends as something that has revolutionized their reading, researching, and writing along with Evernote and DropBox.
http://www.zotero.org/
3) An Easy Way to Reduce Cheating: Willingham argues that the context within which we discuss honest really does matter. Labeling people as cheaters confronts the basic self concept of honesty in a way that doesn't allow them to rationalize cheating-behaviour. An interesting argument...
http://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2012/11/an-easy-trick-to-reduce-cheating.html
Very interesting! I believe this falls under the same umbrella as the "social norming" argument, one avenue that has proven to impact the behavior of young adults (e.g., the social norming "campaigns" around binge drinking on college campuses). Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI think Freedom would appeal to some students who recognize their inability to control their e appetite when they should be hitting the books. I have seen several conversations where students were the ones suggesting such measures. We talked in CHAT and Academic Honor Committee about how to block your own Facebook.
ReplyDeleteJamie Kim used this program last year to stay off of Facebook specifically and it worked fantastically for her - she is a success story with it.
DeleteAlso, we have a built in 'priming' effect in most of our classrooms to dissuade cheating. Studies show that by simply having students sign an honor code BEFORE taking the test (O.M.H.) reduces the likelihood they will cheat even if they had planned on doing so before hand - from Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
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