A Snake Charmer without the Music: Motivating the Students of Today
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 1002
Proposal
It is the purpose of this paper to describe intrinsic motivation and to explain how the application of intrinsic motivation through meaningful, personable assignments in such forms as research, social media, and critical thinking helped eradicate the lack of student motivation within a classroom. The identification of the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation created an environment in which the students became more active in their education and enhanced communication between the teacher and the students.
Presentation Description
Increased work ethic and communication in the classroom setting were increased by the application of research, social media, and critical thinking within the scope of personable assignments geared toward intrinsic motivation.Too much pressure is placed upon educators to survive the jungle of teaching the students of today, making a good impression, and earning high test scores.. I turned off my switch of total control and started welcoming the new light of intrinsic motivation. The identification of the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation created an environment in which the students became more active in their education and enhanced communication between the teacher and the students.
Keywords
Intrinsic Motivation; Extrinsic rewards; Teaching students of today; meaningful assignments; English assignments; Technology within classroom; Motivating students; Informational literacy; Social Media; Higher Education
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Simmons, Amelia, "A Snake Charmer without the Music: Motivating the Students of Today" (2016). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 51.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2016/2016/51
A Snake Charmer without the Music: Motivating the Students of Today
Room 1002
It is the purpose of this paper to describe intrinsic motivation and to explain how the application of intrinsic motivation through meaningful, personable assignments in such forms as research, social media, and critical thinking helped eradicate the lack of student motivation within a classroom. The identification of the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation created an environment in which the students became more active in their education and enhanced communication between the teacher and the students.
