Rewards for the 21st Century Education
A Reality Experienced in Today's Education
The Puzzle of Motivation video of Dan Pink is clear example of were we must gear in
our units towards PBL. It clearly demonstrates two learning paths that are
experienced in today’s educational scenarios around the world. One where
rewards and incentives can mislead the true meaning of acquiring knowledge. In
which students will have a lack of reasoning and reflection but a fast ending
of the task to win or earn something in return. This will reveal a low achievement
on knowledge, creativity and unclear purpose or real application to solve tasks
or a poor performance on final products. Fostering a generation of learners that
do not have the necessary skills for this leadership global market world.
The second scenario, is today’s 21st Century education, in which teachers
have a harder task in engaging students to meaningful and truthful tasks linked
to community or world problems to promote inquiry and problem solving, to
expand their thinking skills but most important of all creativity. We need to
reflect on our educating role that promotes the way education is viewed and be
entirely committed to use PBL to cope up with our student’s natural way of
learning. We need to think of rewards in a total different way in which there
are not based on physical things like a candy, toys, etc. or as a way of just
fulfilling a grade with no true meaning. As educators we need to remodel the
way we incentive our students by sharing their creativity and skills acquired
in their community.
There are no limitations to this global
education, what science knows and what education does is the paradigm that we
encounter every day. As educators, we need to pace up and keep this inspiration
and creativity to make our students be ready for global perspectives,
leadership roles and jobs. Having and open view and incorporating expertise or
sharing rewards will make our students knowledge to grow in meaningful ways, to
be ready to the changes to come and to be competitive in this global community.
This will the best reward or incentive we can give them.
Keep your teaching incentives high!! View Introducing TED-Ed: Lessons
WorthSharing to inspire your teaching creativity!
PA3a
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