Discussion Board Week 8

Week 8 Discussion Board

NOTE: Discussion board assignments are an online/virtual class participation activity. Discussion board grades cannot be made up but your lowest 2 scores this term will be dropped from your final grade. Thus, if something comes up that causes you to miss up to two classes this term, they will not influence your final course grade. Any absence beyond the two scores that are dropped will count against your grade.

Discussion board points are awarded on an all or nothing basis at the discretion of your instructor.

Make sure you have read chapter 1 in your book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise BEFORE you start this discussion board response.

Please respond to the following prompts:

Please include the quote: Q. Andres Ericcson once described the study of expertise as a fools errand.

1. What differentiates purposeful practice from the kind of practice most people engage in when they want to learn something new?
2. What is something you have worked to excel at? How did you practice to get better?
3. What is the most important lesson you took away from the discussion of purposeful practice?

After you respond to these prompts, please write thoughtful, interesting responses to the posts of at least 3 different classmates.