Why are we motivated?
Wang and Han believe in order to motivate students we need to give them six things; control, control, collaboration, constructing meaning, and consequences. I created a mind map of the six elements of motivation and what each of these mean for students
Wang and Han, in agreement with Turner and Paris (1995), believe that the six C’s of motivation enhance student motivation when applied to open tasks…
This led me to question, what really motivates students… Do we want to feel like we have a choice about the task at hand? Do we enjoy a challenge rather than being bored or anxious? Do we like to feel we are in control of some part of the task? Do we enjoy effective collaboration with other students? Do we like to construct meaning for ourselves so the task has some long lasting effect? and do we like to be responsible for the consequences of our actions? I believe yes to all the above questions and therefore am in agreeance with Wang and Han…
It would be interesting to know if secondary school students agree with this article 
For full size mind map click here
November 5th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
[...] Elgg is an online social network designed specificially for academics. Students and Teachers can create profiles, add photos, videos, blogs, friend lists, podcasts and many more. Schools are seeing Elgg as a great learning tool due to its online collaboration between students. Collaboration, interestingly enough, was sited earlier as one of the Six C’s of Motivation. [...]