It is the end of the semester and the time when the research papers should be written, and are not; when the displays should be almost finished, and they are not; when the students should be preparing their eye contact and speaking skills with each other, and it is not happening. What happened?
Gifted thinkers do procrastinate for several reasons, but mostly because they believe they can whip out the work at the last minute OR they cannot make a final decision because of the number of available options. When the research was being done on index cards and card catalogs, there was procrastination but not like this semester. In the first couple semesters of this digital study, there was procrastination, but not like this semester. Today, in a verbal jam session, one student said "With speed there is no hurry to hurry because there's more time to procrastinate and see if some new information shows up somewhere."
MmMmmmm...could speed be enabling procrastination?
The students have agreed to writing letters to next semester's research students. Like advice to the lovelorn, the letters would give advice about target dates, using their blog for the practice session it is meant to be, and when speed buys extra time, use it.
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