- What are we trying to accomplish with STEM education and how can we apply the ideas from Daniel Pink's talk on motivation?
Rewards are a great way to get students engaged and interested in the subjects at hand, however they should not be the primary motivator to do those tasks. As mentioned by Pink, such experiments have proved that monetary rewards actually stunts creative thinking as your mind is focused on the rewards and not the process. With this, we know that what we are trying to accomplish with STEM education is to engage the students in the learning themselves, not the rewards at the end.
- How might we apply his elements of a new business operating system to STEM education?
Pink's proposed Business operating system can be applied to STEM education because offering students rewards is a common practice that apparently does not facilitate learning. His business model focuses on the individual's contribution to the company without need for routine office scenarios like meetings and bonuses. It improves creativity and productivity in the same way that stressing it in a classroom would.
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