Motivation and Learning & the Brain

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After reading textbook chapters 8 and 9 as well as the articles and videos provided, respond to the following discussion questions: Textbook link – https://drive.google.com/file/d/146xtv5mSCSNAv950T3tWV2vsbb5RkaCc/view?usp=sharin Reflect on what steps you can take to understand and enhance your own motivation to learn? Determine what motivates you. What are key extrinsic motivators? What are key intrinsic motivators? What type of learning orientation or combinations of orientations would you have according to the Houle Typology (Goal, Social, or Learning Orientation)? Reflect on your own learning in courses and workshops. Recall your teachers. Which ones made you feel passionate and excited about learning? What did they do? What can you infer about your own learning motivation based on this experience? How do you emulate past motivating teachers in your own practices? Discuss whether you are right brained or left brained and how you may utilize concepts you discovered to assist the learning of right-brained and left-brained learners. Also include a discussion of concepts presented in the videos regarding memory and retention and how you may assist learners. Articles Song, D., & Bonk, C. J. (2016). Motivational factors in self-directed informal learning from online learning resources. Cogent Education, 3(1), Retrieved from: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2331186X.2016.1205838 (Links to an external site.) Kim, K. k., & Frick, T. W. (2011). Changes in student motivation during online learning . Journal Of Educational Computing Research, 44(1), 1-23. Videos Are You Left Brained or Right Brained? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL4NB8T1lM8&t=55s TED Talk Working Memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2Z2hSgFIY TEDx Talk: Rethinking Memory & Retention of Learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlxVePiMfeI https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_doolittle_how_your_working_memory_makes_sense_of_the_world (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)