Encouraging our students to be intrinsically motivated is difficult when they just want to pass the class. We need to impress upon our students the benefits of the educational process to them and how great they feel when they successfully meet a challenge (which means different things to different students) regardless of the grade they eventually earn.
Extrinsic motivators can be place holders until intrinsic motivators kick in.
it is interesting to see the reward system is not a motivator in the adult education system. We look for more internal rewards and self fullfilling rewards systems.
My students will feel more connected to their lessons if they understand what's in it for them.
Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic motivators; both are very prominent, both may be used, but intrinsic motivation is what we want, as we want the students internally be engaged and wanting to continue to learn, retain information and grow!
The differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
excellent review of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators
Thank you for the feed back, I will try this in my own class room.
Try to play more games in the class for a more extrinsic types.
Intrinsic motivators contribute the most to a students security in the classroom
Intrinsic is a feeling the student
Extrinsic is receiving what is considered a reward
dont over reward a student
Intrinsic motivators is our goal. Using extrinsic motivators such as Kahoot serves to incourage students and help them to intrinsic motivation.
This module taught me to ensure I remain motivated to encourage my students and hopefully promote instrinsic motivation to succeed in and out of the classroom.
Intrisic motivators are things that students enjoy so they are more likely to complete those tasks. Extrensic motivators are awards or prizes.
Like the reminder about how extrisnic rewards dirve behavior but might give temporary results and stduents could feel manipulated by those outer rewards
Also, external rewards being used until the learner is intrinsically motivated was a good takeway
In our program extrinsic motivation is what brings people in but we have to find the intrinsic motivation in order to succeed.
What was learned:
I learned that intrinsic motivators are internal to the person and extrinsic motivation is doing something to earn a reward. I used to believe that extrinsic motivation did not work, like offering extra credit or a prize etc. But from reviewing the training both motivation types are very useful.
I believe that it is great to help students focus on goals and achievements. For example, I have introduced students to tryhackme, which is a security game where students can learn and earn achievement badges. This approach has helped motivate students to learn and have the capacity to also see their intrinsic motivation grow as they grow confidence with the tools of the security trade.
I will continue to find ways for students to play and learn at the same time, and also help them with setting goals for their own learning and growth.
People are generally motivated for two reasons, it makes them happy or it makes someone else happy. So, using both intrinsic vs. entrinsic will only be beneficiall when determing what factor to use to motivate studens.
I have learned that a motivator can be both intrinsic and extrinsic in nature. I will try not to use extrinsic rewards as a long-term motivator in the future and I will try to balance both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for students.
