Most textbooks ultimately come down to didactic presentation. The student is told: “If you study these facts and processes, then you will do well on the test.”
Therefore much of the motivation is extrinsic — the desire to succeed. For some fortunate students, who happen to already have an interest in a given subject, there is also the intrinsic motivation to learn more about what they love.
But if a student does not already have that connection to a topic, then assigning them chores will not forge that connection. In fact, it might inspire dread and resentment.
So why not instead present educational material in the form of fictional narratives? That will tap into a motivation that the student already has, on an instinctive biological level — the desire to hear a good story.
I think human’s important ability is to believe a story and co-operate based on a fictional story. But, they are quite old concepts (recently called fake news). Such story is better when they are completely fictional. Those don’t exist as a physical form (or a tangible). This means when human doesn’t exist, they disappear. Such fake news examples: bible, kingdom, capitalism, nations, stock, money, ideology, and so on. I don’t say they are good or bad. But human have an ability to believe them and pretend they exist and can act based on them. Thus, I agree to use fake news to present educational material (historically we use for a few thousand years and they are quite effective). But I also say we should aware they are fake news.