{"id":1290,"date":"2020-05-21T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2020-05-21T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T20:46:01","slug":"a-small-nudge-can-keep-students-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/21\/a-small-nudge-can-keep-students-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"A Small Nudge Can Keep Students on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all get distracted at times, especially when there are not people around you who act as role models or have a bigger picture in mind.  Teenagers and children have even less self-control and as teachers, you watch them get side-tracked.  When there is a long term project, we need to give them reminders along the way to do a bit of work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is often looked down-on and called &#8216;hand-holding&#8217;, but at the same time it is scaffolding their learning and very valuable for the student. These soft skills are extremely hard to develop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This podcast by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/423302056\/hidden-brain\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Brain<\/a> explores this concept of &#8216;Nudging&#8217; students along and the powerful effect it has had on college enrollment via text messages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/621023537\/623286435\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/621023537\/623286435<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the Introduction to spark your interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Every year, many students who have overcome daunting obstacles in high school receive good news &#8211; they&#8217;ve been accepted to college. Many of them are low-income students with outstanding academic track records, and they represent a success story &#8211; the American dream made real. With hard work, students who don&#8217;t have a lot of advantages can bootstrap their way into higher education and a better life. Only, it doesn&#8217;t always work out.&#8221;<\/p><cite>SHANKAR VEDANTAM, Hidden Brain &#8211; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/transcripts\/621023537 <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all get distracted at times, especially when there are not people around you who act as role models or have a bigger picture in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/21\/a-small-nudge-can-keep-students-on-track\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Small Nudge Can Keep Students on Track<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":71800,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}