[Carl.Hoopingarner]

I would likely place it all in Tesla if I had it today, as it’s the only one I truly understand and wouldn’t be a bet. I also may also put it into Bitcoin. Both would be long-term investments of 10+ years.

[Carl.Hoopingarner]

I’ve been watching SpaceX closely since 2012. If anyone is interested, I highly recommend the book Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX. I’d link to the book on Amazon, but that seems a bit ironic considering Bezos is competing with SpaceX ????

[Carl.Hoopingarner]

To piggyback on what Mariam and Jennifer have said, meaningful learning is key. That of course, can mean different things for every single child. But each child certainly shares similar interests and finds similar things meaningful.

We all know children are interested in games, so how can your lesson be gamified in a way that is meaningful to their lives? However you design your lesson, it needs to require students transfer the knowledge they have retained. Lessons should try to achieve these goals for meaningful learning to happen: understand the knew knowledge, apply it, analyze it, evaluate it, and create with it.

This article explains all of this better than I can: http://web.mit.edu/jrankin/www/teach_transfer/rote_v_meaning.pdf

I’m in the early stages of creating a D&D curriculum for my school’s EFL language lessons and I have a few pilot classes going on at different language levels (basic and intermediate) so I’m very interested in this topic.

Here is a mind map I created that displays how the transfer of knowledge works when students play Dungeons and Dragons.

[Carl.Hoopingarner]

I’m studying human development across the lifespan at Oregon State right now, here are examples of how to improve intrinsic motivation (see attached file)