MOTIVATION-BASED LEARNING
Robert White made a very important discovery about
learning in 1959: we can learn things we’re not
interested in, but if we are interested, we are more
likely to retain the information that is being taught.
According to Jim Rohn: “If a person is going down
the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed
him up. What he needs is education to turn him
around.”
Students in North America spend, on average, four
hours a day watching television. The bright colors,
exciting people and situations, and constant
references to items that will, according to the seller,
increase a student’s popularity and life quality, are
strong motivators.
Students want to watch television. They want to play
games. They want to use the computer. The question
we must ask ourselves is not how to keep them from
doing these things, but how to use an alreadyexisting motivation to educate them.
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The American Academy of Child and Adolescent
psychology suggests that it is not the medium of
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delivery that is the problem, but the content that is
causing adolescents who watch a lot of television to
perform less well in school and be more likely to
become ill or obese than their peers.
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We need to communicate with students on a platform
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they understand and realize that they are already
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motivated in this area. Our students are already
spending time in front of the television or on the
computer. This is how they are connecting to one