If you have even ridden in an elevator, you are familiar with the "Elevator Effect." You get in with perhaps five other people, and you push the button for your destination floor. The doors slide shut. And now that you are riding with these five people, something very peculiar happens. No one on the elevator looks at each other. No one talks. Everyone stares at the display that indicates the current floor.This phenomenon - this strange transformation in human behavior that occurs when strangers are confined together in a limited amount of space - is the elevator effect. It occurs in a variety situations - on buses, in doctor's waiting rooms, in laundromats, at the check out line of the grocery store, etc.The elevator effect is very important to you as a teacher. What, after all, is a classroom? A classroom is a giant elevator, and you are its attendant. Students board the elevator at the beginning of class, walking into a room full of strangers. The door to the room shuts. They sit through a 50 minute ride, staring at you, or the board, or the ceiling the entire time. The elevator "rises" (hopefully), taking the students to a slightly higher intellectual plain, with you announcing each floor as it goes by. At the end of 50 minutes, the door opens and the students get off the elevator.(...)Fonte
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O Efeito Elevador
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January 13 2011, 3:44pm | Comments »
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