Motivation- Tony Gurr

I had mixed feelings about the Motivations blog post. It was so interesting the way it was all set up, I loved all the visuals Tony used, and his points were inspirational. Yet, the number of visuals he had seemed a bit overbearing at some points and slightly distracting. It was still easy to comprehend and like I said, I really enjoyed what he was talking about. You don't see such innovative blog posts like this, its definitely nothing I've ever seen before. It made me think about something that was the subject of discussion in my home the other day.

My sister had to write a paper about how not many children retain information from school, and this blog post brought that to my mind. The conversation was basically about how students don't always take in all the information they are taught in a structured classroom and I strongly believe that is because of such small amounts of motivation students give themselves. Even though some subjects may be of no interest to most kids, they still need to find ways and reasons to motivate themselves. And they're not going to find any reasons if they are not in an environment that gives them inspiration. One thing Tony put in his post that I really loved was,

"Kids Don't learn:
-From people they don't like
-More when we test them
-From teachers who don't give them CHOICES or VOICES.

That last point really stuck with me because if there is anything I've seen so many times, it is this. I had so many teachers over the years who saw us all as kids, what we had to say didn't really matter, all that matters is that they tell us what they are required to tell us. It's sad but some teachers don't stick around to see if we understand what is being taught, or to answer our questions. We have voices that deserve to be heard, and Tony really touched on this. That is why I loved this post.

I was really fond of the style of this blog, it makes me think of new innovative ways that I could make blogs and other things in the future. Isn't that what he wanted his post to do? Even by writing a post on motivation in an interesting way, it has inspired me to think of things in a new light. So I think that Tony really succeeded with this post because it made me want to better myself through my skills. I am happy to say I'm officially motivated.