WoW (Week 25)
Games are the quintessential autotelic activity. We only ever play because we want to. Games don’t fuel our appetite for extrinsic reward: they don’t pay us, they don’t advance our careers, and they...
View ArticleAMP is a Verb (Week 27)
Creativity is a step beyond imagination because it requires that you actually do something rather than lie around thinking about it. To develop our creative abilities, we also need to develop our...
View ArticleHumble Beginnings | Spring Break Quest Fest
Satisfying work always starts with two things: a clear goal and actionable next steps toward achieving that goal. Having a clear goal motivates us to act: we know what we’re supposed to do. And...
View ArticlePainful Processes (Week 29)
Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache of not being able to find the answer. We have worked hard, but we’ve hit the wall. We have no idea...
View ArticleVincent and Semar’s Excellent Adventure (Week 31)
Code is Poetry. — WordPress Motto Imagine the first day of school next year. After finding their seats, the students are confronted with a teacher who simply smiles and points to the board. On the...
View ArticleDreams and Needs (Week 32)
It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. — G.A Borghese Home stretch. Six weeks plus finals. That’s all that’s left of the 2011/12 school year. Many of you have found your ZIM. Some through AMP,...
View ArticleReading the Map (Week 33)
However, when those feelings of knowing tell you that you’re getting closer—when you feel the poetic meter slowly improve, or sense that the graphic design is being unconcealed—then you need to keep on...
View ArticleFind Your Flow (Week 21)
During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularly achieve the greatest form of happiness available to human beings: intense, optimistic engagement...
View ArticleTime Zips By (Week 23)
A good game is a unique way of structuring experience and provoking positive emotion. It is an extremely powerful tool for inspiring participation and motivating hard work. And when this tool is...
View ArticleA New Era Begins: WoW in the Classroom
Thanks the the forward-thinking and hard work of our district technology specialists—specifically Larry S and Mike J (thanks guys!)—the district firewall has been breached. World of Warcraft is now...
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