1. disruption and Inspiration
Motivation
disruption and Inspiration

2. Overview: Learning Process
Disruption
Goal-Setting
Making Connections
Rehearsing
Feedback (and Revision)

3. Expectation Failures Creating Disruption What the Best College
The learner encounters a problem or idea or experience which contradicts or falls outside of their current mental models.
Ken Bain
What the Best College
Teachers Do (2004)

4. Caveat: Safe Disruptions

5. 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 Bain
What the Best College
Teachers Do (2004)

6. Motivational Theories
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.

7. Motivational Theories
Values
Expectancies
Attainment Value
Intrinsic Value
Instrumental Value
Outcome Expectancies
Efficacy Expectancies

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

9. Fostering Intrinsic Motivation
Authentic Problems
Open Questions
Reasonable Challenges

10. How do you create disruption?
First Challenge
How do you create disruption?
And convince them to care?