This study proposes to help fourth grade students who do not read
enough as compared to their peers due to the low motivation. In order to deal
with the low motivation as an instructional problem and improve the students‟
reading performance, three graduate students of the University of Texas at San
Antonio intended to design and develop software that is called My Story and
teachers will be involved as facilitators. The hypothesis is: software increases
learning motivation through self-directed with the technology involvement.
Furthermore, the objectives of the project consider the standards of state of
Texas for the fourth grade, which requires the fourth graders to pass the
comprehensive exam. Additionally, constructivism and reinforcement theories
will be merged in his study since the students will learn the applied software
using their prior knowledge and will be reinforced to meet the objectives of this
study for more effective outcomes and successful learning achievement. Since
this project intends to solve the problem of low motivation in reading, our
development team believes that the My Story software will motivate all of the
fourth graders, due to the motivating and reinforcing factors that fit the
individual differences for ten year-old students. Based on that, we expect that
the students will like to read more and involve effectively in reading class in the
future.