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Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
The Web gives to both teachers and students an incredible source of learning and teaching tools. Time and place for learning a specific topic don't exist anymore. But does this mean that all students are engaged in classroom activities and in taking advantage of cyberculture? Obviously it doesn't. In almost every educational context, the motivation factor, for learning and for school in general, is crucial and must be regarded by teachers as a key element to explore. Regarding motivation as a set of biological and psychological mechanisms which allow triggering an action, its orientation and finally the intensity and persistence (Lieury &
Fenouillet, 1997:9), it becomes impossible not to consider motivation as a crucial factor in the teaching and learning process, because the more motivated the student is, the more persistent and productive his activity will be. Lieury
e Fenouillet mention two types of motivation: intrinsic (in which the activity is appealling in itself) a…
Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum
Digital
literacy is an important entitlement for all young people in an increasingly
digital culture. It furnishes children and young people with the skills,
knowledge and understanding that will help them to take a full and active part
in social, cultural, economic, civic and intellectual life now and in the
future. To be digitally literate is to have access to a broad range of practices
and cultural resources that you are able to apply to digital tools. It is the
ability to make and share meaning in different modes and formats; to create,
collaborate and communicate effectively and to understand how and when digital
technologies can best be used to support these processes.
Digital literacy involves critically engaging with technology
and developing a social awareness of how a number of factors including commercial
agendas and cultural understandings can shape the ways in which technology is
used to convey information and meaning. Digital literacy across the curriculumis an importan…