on motivation, dan pink ted talk:
yeah.. it's that good - watch it twice.. :) [actually can't figure out how to delete the one i cut and pasted without losing everything else.]
There's a mismatch between what science knows and what business(including school) does.
solution: don't do more of the wrong things
an entirely new operating system:
built around intrinsic motivation
autonomy: urge to direct our own lives
mastery:desire to get better and better at something that matters
purpose: yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
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from live webinar with pink via classroom 2.0
Dan Pink on How we motivate people
free agent nation -
whole new mind -
drive - why people are doing what they're doing (mismatch between what science knows and what business does)
Nancy J.: and this book is about autonomy as an important component
we create a society of dependency
we assume people aren't active and engaged - so we add all these crazy rewards... need to assume people are naturally inclined to activity and engagement
added body of research and the fundamental shift in what people are doing for a living
educators wanting to break loose - one extreme
policy makers - wanting standardization
he says he's never seen a teacher that didn't do pbl -
so he's says focus on drive...
stuff that's fascinating - but from internal desire for mastery not external desire for compliancy
stuff that's fascinating - but from internal desire for mastery not external desire for compliancy
he's heard some say...if you don't hate it it's not rigor -
biggest thing to take away - self automation
do-it-yourself report card
if you deny people that search for engagement and mastery - they're going to find it somewhere else
every good thing begins with a conversation.
so a good book is one that gets a good conversation going..
focus on our 3rd drive - desire to do something that matters
comfortable with ambiguity - dan meyer - patience with irresolution
if you want engagement - self-direction is the pathway there
making progress best motivator - where open source comes in .. - that you want to do something so much you would do it for free
autonomy
mastery - progress
purpose
what would drive people to work on a project like wikipedia?... the drive
pink did a story - the book stops here..... on why anyone would do something like wikipedia
joe_bower: Jerome Bruner said it best: students should experience their success and failure not as reward and punishment but as information
we see grades as the goal - the whole point - leads to less profound learning
what we should realized - grades are a form of feedback - get kids involved
dan lists 5-6 schools that are doing it
