Pre-Assignments Week May 6-May 12 Video

ASSIGNMENT PA3a

After watching the video on Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation I highlight the following key quotes:

Carrots and sticks (an order of motivation based on rewards) worked for 20th century tasks, not for 21st century’s.

Rewards work when the rules and the objective are clear.

Rewards, by nature, focus our attention, reducing our senses; work well when attempting to achieve a well defined objective, but the inverse happens when we deal with a complex problem: we don’t really want that reduction and concentration of our abilities and senses for that.

In developed countries, successful developers have left the mechanic work for outsourcers, and they dedicate themselves to complex problems, those involving the right side of the brain, the more conceptual and creative.

Intrinsic motivation is the one that incentivates us for being interesting and right, for being challenging.

The building blocks of a new way of making things:

According to the speaker in the video, these building blocks are ordered for three guiding lines - autonomy, mastery and purpose

Autonomy- The urge to direct our own life.

Mastery- The desire to get better and better in something that matters.

Purpose-  The urging to do what to do for something bigger than ourselves

How could I, as a teacher leader, remodel the actual educational system based on rewards, to promote creative abilities of your 21 st Century students? 

Following the way of the ROWES (Results Only Working Environments). In Science class, students could be confronted to insightful inquiry to be approached and sorted out in the way they think better, working collectively to present results once they’ve gotten to them.

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