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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute.

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How to Motivate Students to Actually Do Homework and Reading

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The moves came prior to the motivation. Cravings are the drives that motivate us to act. Building up a habit like the one I have done for exercise involves both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for most people. To incentivize that, I typically assign reading exercises and quizzes.

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Cloud-based assessment platform is free for educators

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Creating, sharing, delivering and grading of tests, along with analysis of results, happens in real-time in one platform. Being able to easily create and deliver quizzes and tests to students in the classroom, and then put the results of those tests to work immediately to help improve student learning was the motivation behind Apperson, Inc.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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Competition Can Motivate, Encourage and Inspire Students. But It Can Also Harm Them.

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Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. When I handed back quizzes and tests, I gave students who scored an 80 percent or higher stickers and placed their tests on our “Show What You Know” bulletin board. They were used as gimmicks and antics to “motivate” students.

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

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In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. You can use it to generate quizzes and students can use it to answer the quizzes, so why do we even matter as educators? AI won’t motivate a student to learn.

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What Happens When Standardized Test Scores Don’t Reflect Student Growth?

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It is painful when all of the effort that teachers and students put into teaching and learning becomes summarized by standardized test results—especially when hard-working students that have demonstrated massive growth over the course of the year receive poor scores. I wondered how the test would affect him after it was over.

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