Projecting Success
This activity involved the use of technology in a rural town where the students had no interest in learning. The teacher used digital cameras to encourage the students to learn how to use technology and also used her own success as a writer as motivation for them to want to write. She had them do a project where they took pictures of themselves as famous authors and then had them create slide presentations with facts about their lives. Not only was this motivational to the children, but also to the parents.
The strategy being employed is reinforcing effort. It works because the children learn to feel confident about the work that they're doing when they can see their achievements, they begin to enjoy what they're doing, they use enjoyable tools such as technology, and they enjoyed receiving praise from their teachers, classmates, and parents.
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