The situation that I experienced while encouraging people to use a new technology; was when I was teaching a laptop class. I had a student who would not use the Internet. She said that she did not need to know how to use it and I explained to her the different things that she could do and that it was also part of the laptop class. I also expressed that before the class was over she would be on the Internet and she said that she would not. Her attitude was that she would learn it if she really had to, but she did not have to. She had a resentment of me telling her. When the other students would go on the Internet and learn about emails and search engines she just sat there and looked. After about the fourth week in the class the lady came in with a smile that she had subscribed to the Internet, set up an email account and was on e-bay.
To change the motivation of learners to encourage success I would explain to them the motives of using the technology and what to expect. Using Keller’s ARCS model, when you see the individual abilities, skills and knowledge of other students it pushes them to do better because they don’t want to feel left out or not able to be in a conversation about what is going on. They become motivated, pay better attention and ask questions (Driscoll, 2005).
References
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