Module 4

Motivation means to be moved to do something...As was discussed in module 3 Self Determination theory that supports our natural or intrinsic tendencies to behave in effective/ healthy ways. (website-self det) An important part that gets included in is orientation of motivation which is the underlying attitudes/ goals that give rise to action. Why do they want to make the soccer team as an example?

Locus of control has always been something that is interesting because its gets involved with the persons personality. Julian Rotter said that it refers to an individuals perception about the underlying main causes of events in his/ her life. (Neill) Locus of control talks about a belief whether outcomes of actions are part of intrinsic or are they out of our control. I find it interesting when you think back to kids talking about how they its out of their control, there is nothing they can do about. My question is what they think is an approach to change a certain view point of someone that they think is out of their control?

Intrinsic vx extrinsic motivation- Intrinsic is the natural desire to learn. Students do it because it is fun or that they find it challenging. There is no reward or outside influence that is making them do it. Extrinsic on the other hand is the outside factors or external control. This is seen when kids do not want to do something. Extrinsic is important in learning environment because we still need to teach certain things. Things like reward or punishment often may be used here or some other kind of incentive. We can find this is coaching world a lot a well, where many coaches will threaten running if the players do not work on performing the task at hand. This threat sometimes motivates players to put in more effort and focus and other times it does not.  Sometime coaches mistake a self efficacy problem for lack of motivation or  effort and in which can backfire when using negative threats or actions.

Self efficacy is the people beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that effect their lives.(webiste, Self efficacy) This could entail how people feel, think, motivate, behave. If someone has a strong self efficacy this could enhance accomplishment and well being. The more positive someone is about themselves the more they will be motivated to put in effort, to continue the will to learn, have different kinds of goals, and to be self regulated. Self efficacy is prob one of the main points in all of this course that I find to be a huge game player. No matter what else we look at it a student has poor self efficacy it will influence them in some negative way. If they have high efficacy it will influence them in some positive way.

Thinking about ID and motivation you see how many times motivation is either added or may not be put into consideration when designing instruction. From another aspect you can see  how many people design instruction that motivation is put in with out even knowing it. The big thing about motivation and ID is prob understanding how to design so that it can motivate a lot of the audience even though many have different reasons and factors for their motivation.