I completely disagree with this: "'Learning is not about feeling good,' Kizilcec said, who is the founder of the Future of Learning Lab at Cornell. 'The emotion of learning is frustration. That's the emotion that's most predictive of learning.'" In my view, if students are getting frustrated, then you're doing it wrong. Frustration is what people feel when things fail and they're getting no clue as to why. It's the opposite of that desire to make 'one more attempt' feeling you get from good software or well-structured problems (analagous to Sid Meier's 'one more turn' approach to gaming). Frustrated is what you feel when you think there's no possibility of success; challenged is what you feel; if you think you could do it if you solved 'one more problem'.
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