DISRUPTION AND INSPIRATION

Motivation

Overview: Learning Process

Disruption

Goal-Setting

Making Connections

Rehearsing

Feedback (and Revision)

Creating Disruption

Expectation Failures

The learner encounters a problem or idea or experience which contradicts or falls outside of their current mental models.

Ken BainWhat the Best

CollegeTeachers Do

(2004)

Caveat: Safe Disruptions

Motivation: Premise

“People learn best when they ask an important question that they care about answering, or adopt a goal that they want to reach . . . If we are not seeking an answer to anything, we pay little attention to random information.”

Ken BainWhat the Best CollegeTeachers Do (2004)

Extrinsic Motivation Intrinsic Motivation

The learner’s focus is on the unrelated external reward that results from successfully completing the learning task (grade, money, praise, self-esteem)

The learner’s focus is on mastery of the material because of its utility, relevance, beauty, or intrinsic appeal.

Motivational Theories

Values Expectancies

Attainment ValueIntrinsic ValueInstrumental Value

Outcome Expectancies

Efficacy Expectancies

Motivational Theories

Extrinsic Motivation

Students with extrinsic or instrumental motivation show higher levels of cheating and shallower levels of learning.

Fostering Intrinsic Motivation

Authentic Problems

Open Questions

Reasonable Challenges

First Challenge

How do you create disruption?

And convince them to care?