I'm sorry, but I really don't remember anyone ever teaching me this stuff when I was an undergraduate. For example, Gross says "our ability to remember information for future use may depend more on our feelings at the time than we had realized" (page 24). In other words, we tend to remember things better when we have an emtional attachment. That totally makes sense, and certainly explains why people remember where they were at 9-11, when the Challenger blew up, when Reagan was shot, etc.How many times do we hear our students claim that something is "boring"? Maybe it's math, maybe it's English, or maybe it's education in general. The point is: the bored student cannot learn. Frankly, I know a lot of us have trouble understanding bored students. "How can they think this stuff is boring?" we wonder. And yet we know that they do.
This link might help:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/motivate.htm
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