The document discusses motivating students to learn through changing classroom instruction from a compliance-based model to one focused on engagement, curiosity, autonomy, and experiential learning. It recommends using strategies like project-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and interdisciplinary field trips to create optimal challenge in Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development and Csikszentmihalyi's state of Flow to encourage learning over simple compliance.

1. Motivating Students to Learn
changing classroom instruction

2. hard wired to collaborate
PBS Special called Human Spark with Alan Alda

3. We need...
direct our own lives
learn and create new things
do better by ourselves and
our community

4. profit maximizers
demonstration

5. purpose maximizers
need to help

6. get them in the ZONE
Zone of Proximal
Development - Vygotsky
not too hard, not too easy
creating Flow-
Csikszentmihalyi

7. compliance
vs
learning

8. control time off task
compliance poor performance

9. control engagement
compliance inquiry/curiosity

10. control autonomy
compliance engagement

11. student centered
project based learning
performance based assessment
inquiry based learning
field trips - on campus
experiential learning
interdisciplinarry