What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interestedand keeps them interestedin pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek.
Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity..
What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interestedand keeps them interestedin pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek