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Could research into environmental effects help learning?

by ann

Apr 24, 2012

I would like to see more research into the mind acting as a parallel processor showing how our individual environments greatly affect thinking, learning, motivation to learn over time "mental reward received for mental work expended", and also, hopefully an end to the false teachings of genetics or permanence in ability taught in school today. I feel it is related to many harmful escapes by students and death from drug/alcohol abuse and suicide.

I would like to see research into improving independent learning through intrinsic reward. Intrinsic reward is that which enables the student to enjoy the work they are performing sufficiently to do their homework and work independently. To gain Intrinsic Reward we must use the effect our environment plays on our mind’s ability to learn. This is something that should be looked at from all levels of education, but especially for grades 4 through 12. I link motivation to intrinsic reward and see its formula as “mental reward received...See MoreI would like to see more research into the mind acting as a parallel processor showing how our individual environments greatly affect thinking, learning, motivation to learn over time "mental reward received for mental work expended", and also, hopefully an end to the false teachings of genetics or permanence in ability taught in school today. I feel it is related to many harmful escapes by students and death from drug/alcohol abuse and suicide.

I would like to see research into improving independent learning through intrinsic reward. Intrinsic reward is that which enables the student to enjoy the work they are performing sufficiently to do their homework and work independently. To gain Intrinsic Reward we must use the effect our environment plays on our mind’s ability to learn. This is something that should be looked at from all levels of education, but especially for grades 4 through 12. I link motivation to intrinsic reward and see its formula as “mental reward received for mental work expended”. I see all students as capable of improving their long-term motivation or intrinsic reward when seen correctly as more mental energy to perform a task. I see two areas we can improve intrinsic reward. The first involves understanding that the old idea of just trying hard does not work very well for intrinsic reward. The harder we try, the more agitation we are creating and thus hurt our thinking, learning, and intrinsic reward. Here, all teachers can begin helping students learn the wonderful skill of slowing down when learning new things. As those students learn more about a task, their pace and intensity will increase naturally. This delicate way of approaching new things is a wonderful way to help keep and maintain intrinsic reward. The second is more complex. Try to see our minds as dealing with not just a task at hand but also other things in our lives at the same time. The more things our minds are dealing with, the harder we have to work to think, learn, and “enjoy the learning process”. By showing students and parents how their individual environments are helping or hurting their thinking, this will help all students respect others much more so in terms of our individual environments. By providing students and adults with tools to reduce some of the excess work our minds are working on in our lives by helping ourselves and our students learn to approach their lives more delicately, students can learn to have a more peaceful mind or a mind with less other mental work going on in their lives. As students get older, explain how our average stress is made up of different things our minds are dealing with. Help them learn to understand, resolve and perhaps change some weight or value that may be creating needless mental work in their minds. As students learn to remove some needless mental work, this becomes also an ever increasing way to improve intrinsic reward or mental reward received for mental work expended.

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