Introduction

A Student’s Drive:

                By: Kati and Marissa

Why did you begin to read this blog? What is it that made you want to learn more about, A Student’s Drive? Well we are here to help answer that question. We are students at Concordia University Wisconsin studying Elementary Education and Special Education and in one of our classes we read Daniel H. Pink’s book, Drive. His book is all about motivation and learning about the “why” of our actions. Our hope for this blog is to bring in some of his ideas about motivation and apply them to a classroom setting so that student’s will be motivated to be more engaged in their own learning. Drive is a business geared book with wonderful ideas about motivation and we plan to take these ideas and shape them for a classroom setting.

Key Terms and definitions from the book:

Motivation 1.0: Early drive of motivation was to survive. It was basic and instinctual.

Motivation 2.0: This drive states that humans are more than the sum of our base, or biological, urges. It includes the drive to strive for reward and to steer clear of punishment on a broad spectrum.

Motivation 2.1: Is basically motivation 2.0, but with the work being enjoyable, attaining genuine achievement, and person growth.

Motivation 3.0: It presumes that people want to be accountable and that making sure they have control over their task, their time, their technique, and their team is the most effective pathway to that destination.

Type X: Behavior is fueled more by extrinsic desires than intrinsic ones. 

Type I: Behavior is fueled more by intrinsic desires than extrinsic ones.