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The current education system has flaws, and the focus is on students' grades.  This flaw causes demotivated students since the focus is not on learning with intention.  Schools could use games as a tool to improve students' intrinsic motivation.

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Gaming as a part of the education given to students results in a different kind of motivation. Intrinsic motivation turns the learning process less strict and boring. The conservative standards do not trigger the students creativity to make the learning proces unique . As for intrinsic motivation that certainly is the case.

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In this ted talk, Caitlin Holman talks about the mindset we have while playing a videogame and using that same mindset in real life. In these videogames, people use different skillsets for every challenge. She speaks of the fact that a gaming mindset tells us that the problems we face in real life are for us to answer.

Also, Holman explains the reason why we grade our schoolwork. The grading is not because to see if we understand what we are doing in class but principally to check if you studied. Whether that is cramming or rote learning is not of importance.

I find that Holman discusses the wrongs in education more than the help games could give in this matter. She does make considerable points about how wrong it is of us to grade a student based only on a test and class presents and how to move forward from that, learn with intention.

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Tirzah                         The previous ways of educating (in which you are just as important as the grade you get or the degree you have) have turned out to be detrimental to one's motivation and long-term hindsight. There might be a solution: games. Well, a solution until we find a problem with the way we educate again.     

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Tirzah                         The previous ways of educating (in which you are just as important as the grade you get or the degree you have) have turned out to be detrimental to one's motivation and long-term hindsight. There might be a solution: games. Well, a solution until we find a problem with the way we educate again.     

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In the video she talks about how they should focus more on the intention of learning and less about the grade. You want the students the be motivated and see their potential.

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Teaching English as a second language isn’t an easy task. Especially not at my intern-school. At least half – possibly more – students already take Dutch as a second language. They constantly have to translate English to Dutch to their first language in order to understand it. I often hear them create mnemonic devices for English idioms or specific vocabulary in their first language. Essentially, I am teaching English as a third language.

The TED-talk by Holman touched a few important parts of teaching. The first being insintric motivation. My students are lacking that motivation. They feel as though they are the least important and smart group of people. I know they do, because I hear them say it. “No, I cannot do this, I am a VMBO-student.” I try and tell them – it’s not true,  but it’s the thing they’ve heard all their life.

Starting at primary school, they were always the annoying kids and the ‘ADHD’ers’, the ones not ‘good’ enough. And I strongly disagree. The fact that industrialisation of education forced them to be the lowest part of secondary education doesn’t mean they are dumb or stupid. It just means their mind works differently. I found that the personal touch means something to them. The fact that I, as a teacher, listen to them means something. They value that.

For me, games are not my go to method in engaging my students. Why not? Because I don’t enjoy it and I think as a teacher it is very important to enjoy the classes I teach. Yes, I will play a gimkit with them because it makes them happy, but not every day. The last time I attempted to play a game, four out of ten students didn’t have their phone with them because another teacher took it from them. That was the end of my gimkit. I gave them the choice. You either do your vocab in groups of two or we do it as a class. They chose the last part and I learned more about them then they did about the vocab. However, the fact that I gave them autonomy still weighs through in every class I teach them.

Holman brought up some points I agree on. Some points I don’t agree on, but the most important part for me was the focus on autonomy. That is something my students miss and including it in my classes makes them more focussed on their own motivation. And that’s what brings their English to a higher level. Games play a very small role. Safety in class is in this case the lead.

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I do agree with her statements, usually schools don’t offer a reason to remember the studied information past tests or assignments. As she said there is no intrinsic motivation to remember the information for the future. Though I’m not sure whether her game-like approach would give students that needed motivation from within.
The three principles are quite interesting and I can certainly see why they would influence the students to have more intrinsic motivation for learning.

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A lot of work and brainstorming is needed to change the way teachers educate students. We need more extrinsic motivational factors in school. The Ted-Talk was very informative, but also a lot of information at once.

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What sets gaming apart from school is the intrinsic motivation of students, which could make learning better and less troublesome. To achieve this intrinsic motivation, you need autonomy, competence, and belongingness.

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What I got from the Ted talk is that schools should look at how video games are and take inspiration from it. CAR-model is important but the main focus is; learn with intention, just not for the grades.

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I found the Ted-Talk to be lacklustre. I do think that the woman in the Ted-Talk makes fair and compelling points as to why the educational system as it is today needs to change. She wants to include the build-up of difficulty of games into the educational system, by focusing on autonomy, competence and belongingness. Nevertheless, she goes on and on about the why and how, which makes me feel wearisome. She is up there on that stage to give a motivational speech to convince others of her belief. However, she achieves the opposite. To conclude, I fully agree which her stance on the educational system, but her deliverance was, at least for me, not the right way to go by.

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I am of the opinion that the woman in the ted-talk makes a couple of strong arguments, the concept that she is pitching is one that requires a complete overhaul to school systems around the world and is thus too optimistic to actually work given the conservative attitude of the government towards education. Though at the end of the video I do have to concede that she gave a few tips that would absolutely work within the context of modern education without requiring one to overhaul the entire school system. Overall I must say that, though strenuous to watch and drawn-out (as all ted talks are in my opinion), the overall experience, the insights and the knowledge gained made up for it.

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The three principles of intrinsic motivation are; Autonomy, Competence and Belongingness.
Autonomy is the meaningfulness of your choices. Competence ensures that you are not getting bored of your work, but also keeps you away from any impossible seeming tasks. Belongingness is the state of feeling connected to your surrounding.

When it comes to a school's level of autonomy, the results are linear. Students practice the same work, answer the same questions and ultimately only have one way of showing their knowledge, participating in an exam.
Schools fail in giving the students a choice. This limits their involvement in their own development. Giving the students a choice in how they want to execute their final assignment in their own way, gives them more motivation then before.

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