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Great points here, thanks for posting. I'm especially interested in your first point on the difficulty of cultivating care beyond all the "games" in school (gr
by aik 15y ago
Great points here, thanks for posting.
I'm especially interested in your first point on the difficulty of cultivating care beyond all the "games" in school (grades, etc.). To extend on this, I agree you can be motivated to do work because you want a good grade, however the real struggle, and where it really pays off, is to be motivated to do work because you inherently want to. In a majority of school, students don't see the purpose or don't care about any given assignment, which is why the games/external motivators have been introduced. An alternative here is to spend much more time convincing the students why it's worth learning/doing, for example through providing more contextual information, introducing real-life scenarios, long-term projects, and so on. Once the students see the value, everything else (and so much more) will follow.