The games and prizes create a "buzz", a healthy sense of competition, but not at the expense of learning.
Related: Our lesson plans The Buzz about the Buzz and Learning How Caffeine Affects the Body.
The trouble is two other buzz words are "learning lessons".
Just being among other people can give you a buzz, all while learning.
As mentioned in the Introduction, both for bad-taste and for the buzz as punishment, learned behaviour is part of an escape process and is expressed only in the presence of the punishment.
There's currently a big buzz around the idea of kids learning to code, fuelled in the UK by the fact that from September, programming will be part of the curriculum for children as young as five years old.
When I was in my early teen years, long after I'd learned the playground buzz of the birds and bees and even taken some experimental sprints at some of the "bases," my dad said he wanted to show me something.
Yet, instead of acting on that buzzing, many people learn to ignore it -- so much so, Michael says, "they don't even hear it anymore".
The Ricoh Arena, you might be surprised to learn, is still a buzz of activity.
For our tutors, that means that, despite the constant buzz around distance learning, the majority of lessons take place in physical, one-on-one learning interactions.
