Mark and Jozsef conducted a 39 minute discussion about The Handbook of Competence and Motivation edited by Andrew Elliot and Carol Dweck. The book was published in 2007. The MP3 download is 26 Mb in size. After listening to this conversation, please make sure to leave Jozsef and Mark a comment or question before Dec 5th.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
motivation models (version 3)
Last evening groups worked on putting together a third version of a visual model of motivation. The download gives you two things:
- A PDF document that includes all 4 group models. They print out quite nicely.
- A QuickTime movie (with chapters) that provides the visual model plus the audio explanation.
harvey milk tour
I've provided a link for downloading the Harvey Milk audio tour released yesterday. I heard about this on the KCBS radio station. You can find out a bit more by visiting the Inside Stories website. The package includes a flyer about the tour, the Castro tour map, and the 71 minute audio MP3.
This is a great idea, and relatively simple for some of you to create for yourselves in some instances. Beyond have a compelling idea (admittedly the hard part), then you need good audio and one or two pages of printouts. Yet this can be an extremely effective way to create a learning experience for some types of learners. History, social sciences, politics, and other areas of learning could be enhanced using this type of learning experience. Hmm . . . maybe I'll try creating a mini-tour of a small portion of Paris this winter!
This is a great idea, and relatively simple for some of you to create for yourselves in some instances. Beyond have a compelling idea (admittedly the hard part), then you need good audio and one or two pages of printouts. Yet this can be an extremely effective way to create a learning experience for some types of learners. History, social sciences, politics, and other areas of learning could be enhanced using this type of learning experience. Hmm . . . maybe I'll try creating a mini-tour of a small portion of Paris this winter!
gina & navdeep conversation
Navdeep and Gina conducted a 41 minute discussion about The Will to Learn: A Guide to Motivating Young People written by Martin Covington. The book was published in 1998. The MP3 download is 28 Mb in size. After listening to this conversation, please make sure to leave Navdeep and Gina a comment or question before Dec 5th.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
survey posted by effort group
The Effort Blog Group just one upped their multimedia presentation. Now those dastardly folks have posted a survey they want students to complete. The survey is short, and looks fun. I've added a direct link to their survey (thanks to Google Docs) below:
Sunday, November 16, 2008
effort-and-ability movie
The Effort blog group has just published a new post, but this one's a bit special. They put together an 11 minute movie! Check it out.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
e-learn conference
I leave on Monday morning for the E-Learn conference held this year in Las Vegas. Last year the conference was in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada which was stunningly beautiful. This time around I'll probably just hang out at the conference full time (slot machines, cards, and lounge singers bore me). Here's the two presentations:
Why is all of this important to you? Mainly it's important that you understand I won't be around until Friday. If you post a comment or send me an email then I may be able to respond before Friday. But maybe not. I have no idea what my internet connection will be like at the conference hotel, nor how engrossing the conference itself will be. However, I look forward to seeing all of your smiling faces about a week from now!
Mitchell, M. & Prion, S. (2008, November). e-Seminars: Outcomes and scaffolding. Presentation at the E-Learn World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education. Las Vegas, NV.
Prion, S. & Mitchell, M. (2008, November). Audiobooks and cognitive load. Presentation at the E-Learn World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education. Las Vegas, NV.
Prion, S. & Mitchell, M. (2008, November). Audiobooks and cognitive load. Presentation at the E-Learn World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education. Las Vegas, NV.
Why is all of this important to you? Mainly it's important that you understand I won't be around until Friday. If you post a comment or send me an email then I may be able to respond before Friday. But maybe not. I have no idea what my internet connection will be like at the conference hotel, nor how engrossing the conference itself will be. However, I look forward to seeing all of your smiling faces about a week from now!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
weiner responds
Our visiting scholar Bernard Weiner asked to do things a bit differently. He requested that he be sent six questions to respond to. So, by October 24th all of you had posted questions. The Effort Blog Group then synthesized those questions into the six specific ones they posted to Dr. Weiner. Now he has responded!
To make things simple, I've created a second post for Dr. Weiner: the first post tells us about him, provides the reading download link, and contains the original questions you asked. The new post contains Dr. Weiner's responses to six synthesized questions. This makes it easy for you to leave comments regarding Dr. Weiner's responses (without the comments getting "mixed up" with the original questions). Check it out:
To make things simple, I've created a second post for Dr. Weiner: the first post tells us about him, provides the reading download link, and contains the original questions you asked. The new post contains Dr. Weiner's responses to six synthesized questions. This makes it easy for you to leave comments regarding Dr. Weiner's responses (without the comments getting "mixed up" with the original questions). Check it out:
new conversation
Yesterday Shannon & Steve recorded a 39 minute discussion of Motivating Students to Learn written by Jere Brophy. You don't need to have listened, and commented, on this conversation until December 5th. However, I'm providing this conversation as an early download for those who might find it useful to have early access to this audio.
sidebar update
I've re-arranged the sidebar area a bit.
- All of the visiting scholars and relevant deadlines for posting questions are posted first.
- Next you see the posted book conversations and relevant deadlines.
- Third are the conversations still be to recorded and their recording dates.
- Fourth you'll see links to each of the blog groups.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Yi-Miau Tsai
Our final visiting scholar has just joined us. Her name is Dr. Yi-Miau Tsai and we'll be discussing the article she was lead author for titled, "What Makes Lessons Interesting? The Role of Situational and Individual Factors in Three School Subjects."
If all of this sounds familiar to you, then it should! We read this article as part of the readings for the session on Interest Theory. So have some fun and re-read this article and get ready for your final discussion. Post your questions between November 12 and November 22. Dr. Tsai will respond to your questions over the period November 19 to November 28.
If all of this sounds familiar to you, then it should! We read this article as part of the readings for the session on Interest Theory. So have some fun and re-read this article and get ready for your final discussion. Post your questions between November 12 and November 22. Dr. Tsai will respond to your questions over the period November 19 to November 28.
Monday, November 10, 2008
blogger emailing comments to you
I showed all of you in our last class how to have Blogger automatically email you when a comment has been added to one of the blog posts at your group's blog. It's a very nice, and useful, feature—especially as your blog page grows larger with more posts (and thus more potential comments).
I've also created a less-than-4-minute movie about how to do this. If you're interested, please download the 13 Mb movie.
I've also created a less-than-4-minute movie about how to do this. If you're interested, please download the 13 Mb movie.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
the three emanuels
I've just finished listening to Debrayh and Mary's wonderful conversation about the Flow book. One of the things they mentioned early in the conversation was about families and flow. They didn't go into this point in detail, but the passing comment reminded me of another conversation I heard on Charlie Rose earlier this year.
On June 16, 2008 Charlie Rose conducted an interview with three Emanuels: Ezekiel, Ari, and Rahm. The last brother should be familiar to you as Rahm has just accepted the position of Chief of Staff within Barack Obama's cabinet. Rahm is currently a congressman from the Chicago area. (By the way, he's a great selection for Chief of Staff: intelligent, straightforward, committed.) It turns out that all three of the Emanuel brothers have been very successful in life, but have all ended up doing very different things. The conversation covers several topics, but the most central and interesting is the discussion about how the family dynamics worked when they were growing up. In turn this conversation provides some important insights into how parents can create a flow structure within the household.
I'm providing the link to the Charlie Rose video of this conversation. It's 25 minutes long and is optional viewing. Some of you may find it very useful.
On June 16, 2008 Charlie Rose conducted an interview with three Emanuels: Ezekiel, Ari, and Rahm. The last brother should be familiar to you as Rahm has just accepted the position of Chief of Staff within Barack Obama's cabinet. Rahm is currently a congressman from the Chicago area. (By the way, he's a great selection for Chief of Staff: intelligent, straightforward, committed.) It turns out that all three of the Emanuel brothers have been very successful in life, but have all ended up doing very different things. The conversation covers several topics, but the most central and interesting is the discussion about how the family dynamics worked when they were growing up. In turn this conversation provides some important insights into how parents can create a flow structure within the household.
I'm providing the link to the Charlie Rose video of this conversation. It's 25 minutes long and is optional viewing. Some of you may find it very useful.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
three conversations
I've just posted three new book conversations. Please listen, and comment, about each of these conversations before our next class sessions. Here's the details:
- Bianca & Kristina discuss Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning edited by Schunk & Zimmerman.
- Debrayh & Mary discuss Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Csikszentmihalyi.
- Dionne & Terry discuss Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control by Bandura.
Friday, November 7, 2008
bonus motivation readings
Educational Psychologist is a great journal that provides research syntheses summarizing and interpreting a body of research. Over the past 12 months that journal has published two things that may be of special interest to some of you:
The Summer 2008 issue contained an article titled: How does motivation develop and why does it change? Reframing motivation research written by Julianne Turner and Helen Patrick. This is an interesting piece definitely worth a read.
The Fall 2007 issue was completely devoted to the theme of: Motivation at School: Interventions that Work. That issue contains 7 articles.
I've provided a link below where you can download the Turner & Patrick article, plus all 7 articles from the special issue on motivation. These are offered as an optional only download.
The Summer 2008 issue contained an article titled: How does motivation develop and why does it change? Reframing motivation research written by Julianne Turner and Helen Patrick. This is an interesting piece definitely worth a read.
The Fall 2007 issue was completely devoted to the theme of: Motivation at School: Interventions that Work. That issue contains 7 articles.
I've provided a link below where you can download the Turner & Patrick article, plus all 7 articles from the special issue on motivation. These are offered as an optional only download.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
department website
The L&I department website has had a few important additions over the past few weeks including:
- Descriptions of the Spring 2009 semester courses
- Scholarly Travel Awards competition
- APA Style help
- AERA
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
voting day
Talk about motivation on a large scale! When I walked out my house to get coffee this morning, our local voting precinct had a line around the corner. Okay, it was only about 50 people long, but given that there are lots of voting precincts in San Francisco (there are about 5 within three blocks of my home), and given that I've seen this particular location every voting day for the past fifteen years, I "can assure you my friends" that the line today was much much much longer than I've ever seen before.
Unfortunately someone didn't seem to get the news. Check out this video (courtesy of Jozsef):
Unfortunately someone didn't seem to get the news. Check out this video (courtesy of Jozsef):
Monday, November 3, 2008
getting writey, getting motivated
Steven Colbert isn't the only one who can make up words! Writey is when you get into that smooth flow of writing and brainstorming: at that point you feel writey instead of blocky. Okay, work with me on this.
Seriously, the writing retreat I just went on was wonderful. Fourteen faculty from the School of Education and Nursing staying up in a retreat area on the north coast. It was beautiful, even with the rain. More importantly it was inspiring to be with a group of people who were all working on refining their research writing, or on developing new research projects.
The new study I brainstormed and fleshed out combines audiobooks, cognitive load (extraneous, intrinsic, and germane), and statistics (standard deviation) to create an experimental design for testing out an emerging theory of audiobook learning packages that Dr. Prion and I have been working on. So between the great colleagues, the scenery, the deer, and the seagulls, the design of the new study took shape. A visual hint of what it aims at is provided below. For those of you whose hearts flutter at the sight of a 2x2 ANOVA, you'll especially appreciate the design.
Images and flippancy aside, being able to have quality time to work on a central aspect of your job (writing) is a great gift. Of course, it wasn't just time: it was also the ideas and camaraderie of colleagues.
This semester we started this course with the theory of self-determination. The theory posited that there are three essential needs: competence, autonomy, and relatedness. All three were met in spades at this retreat. Faculty certainly need to find ways to better motivate student learning. But institutions also need to find ways to support and enhance the intrinsic motivation of their educators. In this way institutions can renew the natural enthusiasm and commitment for education that their faculty always had, but sometimes gets lost, in the ebb and flow of managing our daily lives.
Seriously, the writing retreat I just went on was wonderful. Fourteen faculty from the School of Education and Nursing staying up in a retreat area on the north coast. It was beautiful, even with the rain. More importantly it was inspiring to be with a group of people who were all working on refining their research writing, or on developing new research projects.
The new study I brainstormed and fleshed out combines audiobooks, cognitive load (extraneous, intrinsic, and germane), and statistics (standard deviation) to create an experimental design for testing out an emerging theory of audiobook learning packages that Dr. Prion and I have been working on. So between the great colleagues, the scenery, the deer, and the seagulls, the design of the new study took shape. A visual hint of what it aims at is provided below. For those of you whose hearts flutter at the sight of a 2x2 ANOVA, you'll especially appreciate the design.
Images and flippancy aside, being able to have quality time to work on a central aspect of your job (writing) is a great gift. Of course, it wasn't just time: it was also the ideas and camaraderie of colleagues.
This semester we started this course with the theory of self-determination. The theory posited that there are three essential needs: competence, autonomy, and relatedness. All three were met in spades at this retreat. Faculty certainly need to find ways to better motivate student learning. But institutions also need to find ways to support and enhance the intrinsic motivation of their educators. In this way institutions can renew the natural enthusiasm and commitment for education that their faculty always had, but sometimes gets lost, in the ebb and flow of managing our daily lives.
goal theory comments
I've received a couple of emails about whether it was possible to post a comment or question about the Goals Theory audiobook. The short answer was: no. I wanted to make sure people posted questions to both Britte Cheng and Dale Schunk in a timely manner. However, I have just posted a new, very optional, knowledge dig 7 post. This allows people to make comments or ask questions about the audiobook material. If you post something before Thursday noon, then I'll be able to incorporate that question or comment into the upcoming class session (if appropriate). Remember, this is entirely optional.
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