21 Simple Ways To Motivate Your Students

1. Give students a sense of control.

2. Define the objectives when you give them assignments

3. Create a threat-free environment

4. Change your scenery and give them a chance to get out of the classroom

5. Offer varied experiences

6. Use positive competition

7. Offer rewards

8. Give students responsibility

9. Allow students to work together

10. Give praise when earned

11. Encourage self-reflection

12. Be excited and share your enthusiasm with them

13. Know your students

14. Harness student interests

15. Help students find intrinsic motivation

16. Manage student anxiety

17. Make goals high but attainable

18. Give feedback and offer chances to improve

19. Track progress

20. Make things fun

21. Provide opportunities for success

Source: edudemic.com

“When I asked you ‘how intelligent you are’, it is a wrong question. The real question is, how are you intelligent. The question is not how creative are you. It’s is how are you creative. And if we can flip our education to get into a better sense of human capacity, then I think we’ll have a better chance of understanding and making sense of the world within us and the world around us.”

Ken Robinson

Source: youtu.be

Nearly seven years ago, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled his plan for a $100 laptop computer for children in developing countries.This developed into the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), which produces low-cost laptops for developing countries. We are posting a part of the infographic Online Colleges came up with after seven years of OLPC (You can find the infographic here: http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/08/22/one-laptop-per-child-7-years-later/ ) We looked at the setbacks they faced and found two out of the six factors listed keep coming up in studies on technology-enabled learning across the world:  Effectiveness - A study in Peru found the laptops did not increase math or language skills, classroom instruction quality or reading habits. Ill-equipped - Teachers in developing nations have trouble turning the laptops on, let alone incorporating them into their curricula. 
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Nearly seven years ago, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled his plan for a $100 laptop computer for children in developing countries.This developed into the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), which produces low-cost laptops for developing countries. We are posting a part of the infographic Online Colleges came up with after seven years of OLPC (You can find the infographic here: http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/08/22/one-laptop-per-child-7-years-later/ )

We looked at the setbacks they faced and found two out of the six factors listed keep coming up in studies on technology-enabled learning across the world: 

  1. Effectiveness - A study in Peru found the laptops did not increase math or language skills, classroom instruction quality or reading habits.
  2. Ill-equipped - Teachers in developing nations have trouble turning the laptops on, let alone incorporating them into their curricula. 

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