{"id":84530,"date":"2022-12-15T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=84530"},"modified":"2022-12-15T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:24:12","slug":"teachers-and-faculty-members-must-sell-the-students-on-how-the-topics-they-are-teaching-are-relevant-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/12\/15\/teachers-and-faculty-members-must-sell-the-students-on-how-the-topics-they-are-teaching-are-relevant-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers and faculty members must sell the students on how the topics they are teaching are relevant [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DC: If students perceive the topics\/class that you are teaching as *irrelevant*, you can talk about motivation and plans to motivate your students all that you want to. But I doubt it will help much.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Christian (he\/him\/his) (@dchristian5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dchristian5\/status\/1603423492661284867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><strong><br \/>\nUnless students see how the topics that you are introducing are <em>relevant to *their futures*<\/em>, it just develops a mindset of &#8220;how do I play the game\/system?&#8221; and &#8220;what&#8217;s the least I can do to get an A?&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>On a somewhat-related tangent:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2022-12-13-student-disengagement-has-soared-since-the-pandemic-here-s-what-lectures-look-like-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Student Disengagement Has Soared Since the Pandemic. Here\u2019s What Lectures Look Like Now<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by Jeffrey R. Young<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC: If students perceive the topics\/class that you are teaching as *irrelevant*, you can talk about motivation and plans to motivate your students all that you want to. But I doubt it will help much. \u2014 Daniel Christian (he\/him\/his) (@dchristian5) December 15, 2022 &#8212; From DSC: Unless students see how the topics that you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,174,343,71,406,279,486,310,66,89,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-career-development","category-education","category-faculty-staff","category-motivation","category-participation","category-real-world-assignments","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84534,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84530\/revisions\/84534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}