hunt,+motivation

I chose to do my wiki on motivation because I feel it is one of the most important traits for a student to have.
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2. There are two types of motivators:
===3. Motivation can be affected by many actions both positive and negatively, depending on the situation. In an article by Jennie Gandhi she explains how motivation by fear is only negative. I disagree with this because fear has fueled me to overcome many obstacles in wrestling. Fear has helped me to concentrate on what I need to do to accomplish a goal. In a classroom setting this would be a negative affect. Jennie Gandhi explains that motives come from attitudes. In a classroom setting it would be important to create positive attitudes to keep positive motivation.===
 * Extrinsic: External influences such as rewards, expectations, and punishment.
 * Intrinsic: Internal innate forces "because we want it for ourselves"

4. In an article by Barbara Gross Davis, she explains how reports eight characteristics contribute to student motivation. These eight characteristics are

 * Instructor's enthusiasm
 * Relevance of the material
 * Organization of the course
 * Appropriate difficulty level of the material
 * Active involvement of students
 * Variety
 * Rapport between teacher and students
 * Use of appropriate, concrete, and understandable examples

5. When teaching motivation factors can be broke up three stages: beginning, during, and end.

 * I think the beginning is the most important stage. When a student starts a class with a negative attitude it will be very hard for him to find motivation to learn anything. If the teacher starts off a class with a negative attitude it will be very hard for the whole class to be motivated to learn. Motivational factors for the beginning may consist of attitudes and needs.
 * The middle stage consists of stimulation and affect. One strategy for this stage may be changing the style of learning activity.
 * The ending stage factors can be competence and reinforcement. A strategy for this stage can be providing consistent feedback.

In this video Daniel Pink talks about the science of motivation. He provides facts about how motivation can be negatively affected by rewards.
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This video is a slide show about the two types of motivation. It also talks about how both types of motivation can be positively affected and negatively affected.
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This video talks about the difference between motivation and inspiration.
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This video is an inspirational video where Earl Nightingale talks about the strangest secret. This is the first of three parts to the video. The strangest secret is "we become what we think about
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In this video Les Brown talks about the goals people set and why they fail.
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This video talks about the difference between inspiration, motivation, and recognition and explains each.
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This video is just a silent video that shows sentences about what motivation is.
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Short clip about a few different strategies of motivation in class.
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