How Real-World Problems Enhance Motivation In Students And Teachers
By tasking their students with solving real-world problems in small groups, instructors at all levels can transform even the most reluctant students into ones who are excited to learn. The solutions they come up with involve making physical things as well as digital artifacts. His award-winning real-world approaches to enhance learning and student engagement are described in his book, “How to Motivate Your Students to Love Learning.”
Steve Potter
Prof. Steve M. Potter taught at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, Caltech and Georgia Tech since 1986. His award-winning real-world approaches to enhance learning and student engagement are described in his book, “How to Motivate Your Students to Love Learning.” He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, where he and his research group created the first embodied cultured networks to study learning at the cellular and network levels. He left the ivory tower in 2015 to become a freelance maker, scientific consultant, writer, and maker workshop teacher in Ireland.
