Getting students motivated to learn can be hard no matter what grade level you teach. Sometimes it's because students find the material boring or useless, or sometimes because they are simply there because they are required to be and not because they have any interest in the subject matter at hand. There are some things you can do, however, to help boost your students' interest in whatever it is that you're teaching.
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how can I ensure my students are learning and achieving? How can I ensure that what they are learning will meet the demands of the future? Finally, how can I ensure that I provide an environment that is engaging enough to inspire, create and motivate students for success?
Blendspace by tes provided these 15 tips to motivate and engage students in a blendspace environment. It's free and it seems easy to create a blendspace.
The principal advantage is distance learning courses is non evasive to your personal life style. You can continue your social life, job life etc with minimum disruption. However, in order to get the real benefit of distance education you have to make sure that you stay motivated to complete the course online.
What a great idea for faculty professional development or any kind of sustained, elearning that needs to occur over the summer months. Creative, motivational, feature-rich, easy to use. Beautiful.
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Just finished submitting Feed Me: Motivating Newcomer Contribution in Social Network Sites ( PDF). The gist is that we analyzed a large group of newly registered FB users and counted all the things they did (or their friends did) in their first two weeks, and predicted how the newbies would behave three months later (how many photos they'd upload). We found that if their friends are uploading photos, they're more likely to, as well (no surprise). And early photo comments are good. But there are some surprises about tagging in there.
This would be great for some motivating ways to learn lots. As blogged by David Warlick
"They are all serious games aimed at exposing students to some of the critical problems that face people around the world, including malaria, famine, nuclear proliferation, and congress (not a joke).
One game, World Without Oil is about the first 32 weeks of a global oil crisis. It launches with the fictitious announcement that gas, at the pumps, now costs $4.00 a gallon."
Interactive, flash-based webquest about the connections between Renaissance life and modern life. Has a lot of motivating features, and includes lesson plans for teachers. Excellent site from the Allentown Art Museum.
The Case Creator is a video-based case creation tool designed to provide teacher education faculty and students a way of sharing a common pedagogical experience through the use of real video embedded in a highly interactive interface.
Case Creator extends work done on video-based teacher education instructional technologies with the main purpose of offering the teacher a new creative avenue to excite and motivate their student teachers.
A fantastic resource wiki with links to online programs on incorporating Animated Avatars, Comic Creators, Digital Scrapbooks, and more into classroom activities. "different elements to learn how you can re-invent your teaching and your students' learning with the use of a few engaging, motivating, and fun resources."
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