Day 2 activities in Malt project

Day 2 - session 1

First task was to understand what is motivation and realized the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

Khawar show us a presentation about what is motivation and explain what is intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

What I understand that intrinsic motivation is person centered. This can be related to students needs, enjoyment, fun and achievement. Student want to learn himself. For example - I like to do it, I enjoy to do it!

Extrinsic – environmentally centered, comes from outside of the performer. In education this could relate to getting a qualification, a better job, status etc. For example - somebody tells me that I need it, and give me the reason why - be better than others...

Interaction centered, the individual’s interaction with outside influences change their behavior. In education terms motivation can be affected by outside factors such as teaching style, manner of giving praise etc. Students can feel more confident and stay more motivated.

After that we had to work in groups and put together Marlow`s hierarchy of needs. Look in pictures this is my group job:

Second task was to explore the learning and motivational theories and models like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Gagne’s 9 events of instruction, ARCs model of motivation, KOLB’s cycle of experiential learning and KOLB’s learning styles, Blooms taxonomy, Hertzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory.

We had to split in groups. Every group had to choose about which learning theory or model they want to talk about. Group had to find out everything and in a very easy and simplistic way explain other about this theory.

Day 2 - session 2

At first we look presentation on what is e-learning and blended learning.
I can say: "E-learning is - have I as a teacher provide support and improve teaching and learning process using and integrate electronic technology".

Then we had to do task, the task was made in PPT using interactive text box and we had to place given pieces of cards in the appropriate segment of the grid. On card were written learning processes/techniques what we can use in our teaching process and the task* look like this:

( * provided material during the course)

Also we had a time look and work through NLN materials provided as weblink and RSC e-books

In the end we learned very useful things - have with minimal resources achieve maximum effect:
FORMS - create interactive 'drop-down' boxes in Word.
COMMENTS - understand how more information can be given to a learner when documents are hosted online.
HOT SPOTS - my own informational hot spots on an image in Word.
Images PPT (and Word) - How to insert images and clipart in PPT and in Word - 2 separate documents.
Hyperlinks PPT - add hyperlinks to your PPT presentation to add interest and a feeling of movement.
Interactive text in PPT - add an interactive text box in PPT.

Reflection

This was a difficult session for me, because I am a pragmatist or/and activist in my learning style. I better prefer to jump in river to catch crocodile as to read books about what is crocodile... This day was full with theory, but with important and useful theory. I remember that in high school I had to learn such theory and this was a very good repetition. And none of the teachers haven`t teach me a theory in such a manner that is so easy understandable. Thank you very much!

What was the key learning from today's sessions?

1. A motive is an impulse that couses a person to act.
2. A lot of things can dismotivate pupils, so teacher is the person who can change things to become better.
3. You have to add a value to things, and people will be more motivated to do, learn, work...
4. As a teacher you have to think about learners self respect, if it`s missing they won`t be so motivate.

What activity motivated you most out of today's sessions and why?

Talking about banded learning and put all given key words in direct place were it belongs (classroom, product, online, process...) I haven't think about this till today - that I can look to tools and activities in that point of view. I liked that we were talking and David was writing in PPT everything, that was very interactive activity. I will try to use this with my syudents too.

How will you use what you learned today with your learners?

I liked all practical thing's what David offered in Microsoft Office programs, I will use these thing definitely, specially hyperlinks on pictures, interactive text boxes in PPT. I liked how it looks when he did in session time :)))
And definitely I will think more about how to make my lessons - not only in the way I learn but I will try to adapt my lessons to different types of learning styles.

Reflect on the extrinsic factors that might affect the motivation of your learners?

• Environment - classroom, color, air, e.g;
• Lack of technical support;
• Relationship - "teachers - learners" "learners - learners";
• Teachers lack of skills about, what is blended learning;
• e.g. picture from course