Ch 4 Autonomy

I liked the idea of the four t’s that Pink brings up from Atlassian’s experience.  It says that task, time, team, and technique are the different ways he says people can have autonomy. Keeping these four ways to change up assignments might help students enjoy the class more and take time to understand the material. The idea of team is harder to do in school because people like to work with Type I people. This makes sense because everyone likes having motivated group members. Kimberly brought this up last time when she said that students that are Type I do their homework and try to learn from the class while type X people are just there because they have to be. When students pick their groups many times they pick friends or people that they know will do good work. The problem arises when the group is made up of Type X. The students are not as motivated to do well to learn and may not be motivated by the grades. I wonder if there are ways to give groups with Type X people more motivation without using carrot and sticks.