When I read your post, actually it is my current experience. Previously, I only thought the phone is used for call or texting message. Now with the new technologies, we can use the smart phone to listen to music, watch TV and call others freely using some communication apps. The advantages of new technologies provide some convenient ways to change my life.

Boredom is a positive factor to drive people to learn new things. However, with the development of new technologies, information overload also causes people to be boring for lots of noisy data, even some rumor news. Particularly, as a PhD student, we would like to concentrate on our specific research topic, we will be easily distracted by so much information that is irrelevant to our study. Therefore, I would say we should figure out where is the original source of the boredom. Otherwise, I can not concede that boredom can drive someone to learn new things.

I like your post format. Text with figures helped me release from long and massive text. Back to the point of your post, I agreed with your idea about the diversity of points and different contexts for some different key points, which will help students keep curiosity to explore more knowledge.

Congrats on playing the game so well. But as you said, it is not suitable for everyone. In another word, it is not fair to use only one criteria to evaluate all of people. We should admit the uniqueness of everyone. Different people have different strength and weaknesses. Some people are good at achieving a good score with enjoying learning. But some people are afraid of this kind of high timing system. We should innovate more systems to evaluate everyone fairly.

Very nice topic and extend thinking from in-class to out-class.

Communication is very important among students, teachers and other people. Blogging is one of the most popular way to communicate with others. I like your opinions that we need to read and reflect what we will post in the website.