Chapter 1 - Isa Murillo

Whether I am on talking to my family back home on Facebook or looking up some directions on SimpleMap, using free resources have become a daily routine of my everyday life. Before reading chapter 1 of "Drive," I never thought about the costs and motivation behind the success of these free businesses. Employers of companies such as Google, Facebook and Wikipedia represents the most powerful new business models: open source. Whether or not a business flourishes, depends on the intrinsic motivation. This directly relates to teaching, because as teachers our behaviors and teaching style, the structure of our lessons and how informal interactions can have a huge effect on our students motivation to succeed in school. In addition, for a student to be successful in this global society they must not only be able to do routine work but also be skillful in empathic, non-routine work. I believe that than an effective educator is someone who looks beyond subjects like math and science and prepares the students to successfully interact and collaborate with the communities in which they will live and work in.  Therefore, through reading this book I hope that I will be able to figure out the key to motivate my students.