Reinforcement vs Motivation

This article got me thinking about how educators try to shape student behaviour. Incentives for mundane tasks do not improve self regulatory skills in the long term. We need to make sure that students are engaged and that tasks are meaningful.

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2012/09/can_incentives_make_students_secretly_hate_us.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-FB

I really like Daniel Pink's insight into motivation. Have a look at an article on my website.