ajjuliani

I never heard of that term "Survivorship Bias" but I like it. My real point (that I make towards the end) is not that we can follow the path of people like JK and Branson, but that we continue to believe in ourselves.

I do believe writers can learn from her story, entrepreneurs can learn from Branson, just as investors can learn from Buffet...

Yes, and that is the point...Quora and Medium are very similar, but Medium frames their content as stories and Quora frames it as answers. That is the main difference to the general public.

And more importantly, what they understand about people that Quora struggled with in the beginning (at least when I was using it for 9-12 months).

I'd demand my "time" back.

I put up a landing page and "Showed HN" a few weeks ago created on unbounce. The general thought was that it seemed spammy. Yet, many of the items on the checklist were covered...what gives?

http://signup.academicrecess.com/ works now

If salaries are paid every two weeks (like mine) then you are not "working for free". If salaries are paid bi-monthly then you can make the case...but it's still not really working for free as you say. I'm not putting in an "extra day" of work, I'm merely working a regular Wednesday, that happens to fall on a leap year.

We are planning a similar site and we are looking for moderators... Thanks for the interest and I completely agree.

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Don't let the haters get us down! I'll reiterate that I do believe perception is changing amongst many teachers in the field. However, the perception outside of the field is what you said...

I think I may have agreed with you completely five years ago, but today's world of education is changing...fast.

We may be still seen as outliers in our field, but the landscape is changing an many educators are getting on board. I'm also looking at the glass somewhere half full, which may not be the case...

I can't even get on the site.

You have to put up a blog post on this...

This question did come up in my class. I said "if you do not want to take this opportunity seriously and would rather be graded on an assignment, I'll gladly assign you a different project for the rest of the year that I will grade you on." He stayed with the 20% project.

The accountability is in the documentation and the presentations. More of a peer accountability than anything else (which I think is powerful). I'd be happy to hear any suggestions!

The difference in my mind is that you are not graded on the documentation or the presentation. Therefore, you are not being "forced to do it" for an extrinsic reward. But I do understand your point. As teachers we are still bound by time and curriculum.

I think this is one of the real questions I had when deciding whether or not to do it. But, in terms of my class, I want to give students that ownership and freedom even if it is for a short time period.