Well reminded @claraoshea The lino canvas is looking lovely :) #mscidel
Just revisisted our lino from last week - gosh it's awesome! #mscidel
How Computerized Tutors Are Learning to Teach Humans: http://t.co/CLbEaIIp #eLearning #mscel #mscidel #edchat #isedchat
RT @WarwickLanguage: Why the disenchantment with Twitter? | Technology | The Observer: http://t.co/q0x9r0qV via @pearltrees #mscidel #mscel
This week I've been working with senior education folk in Brisbane to show, through a set of stories and discussions, how their own creative confidence is so important to bring about a sense of self-efficacy in their teachers and students. Self-efficacy is that feeling that whatever you do can have an impact on the world around you. Creative confidence is not feeling uncomfortable when people start to approach things in ways that rock the status quo.
Self efficacy is pretty much at the core of motivation to learn, the motivation to do anything! After all, we don't tend to undertake tasks that we feel we'll never manage to complete or get good at: learning Arabic, cooking a soufflé... Students in school can have self-efficacy and see how to complete the "game" of doing well at school, while others assume they'll never score highly in that game and just disengage. Some have self-efficacy in spades, and others have little.
The talk above from IDEO and d.school founder David Kelley contains a powerful trio of stories about how self-efficacy has moved on from its origins with Albert Bandura in seeing how phobics can overcome their phobias, to a set of understandings about how humans measure their progress towards goals and decide on their next steps based on those measurements, sentiments and reactions.
Kelley's bias is on creative confidence and turning the tide on the number of people who, from the moment they're institutionalised in school through to adulthood, decide to tell people "I'm not creative". His belief is that, in the same way snake phobics can be trained to get themselves out of that phobia, creative-phobics can be trained to get themselves out of that hole, too. It all starts with a basic set of assumptions and processes like design thinking that turn that scary creative journey into a familiar well-trodden path:
Much in the same way the snake phobic can see other people are not phobic, and must have found the means within themselves to be that way, we can realise that people we see as creative found a set of processes, steps and attitudes that allow them to think in that way.
I hace complete confidence :) RT: @MikeGwaltney: Hoping to live up to the hype! #mscidel #mscel
Hoping to live up to the hype! RT @claraoshea @CMSinclair: "As always, many interesting new students on the MSc E-learning." #mscidel #mscel
Looking forward to starting my MSc on Monday – where will it all lead, I wonder… #mscel #mscidel
Ditto! :) RT: @CMSinclair: As always, many interesting new students on Edinburgh's MSc E-learning. I love my job! #mscidel #mscel
As always, many interesting new students on Edinburgh's MSc E-learning. I love my job! #mscidel #mscel
Really happy to be teaching on the MSc E-learning again #mscel #mscidel
Really interesting Twitter chat held by @storify about what it is and isn't OK to curate: http://t.co/msWbWAQr #netiquette #mscel #mscidel
Doing induction activity for first course on MSc E-learning. OK, it's time to give Twitter another try ;) #mscidel
Putting down ideas for my 1st blog post as part of my e-learning masters... oh my goodness what a mess! My poor tutor :) #mscel #mscidel
#mscel students - congratulations, you're on a programme at one of the world's top 25 universities ; ) http://t.co/YHFGBdYR #mscidel
RT @hamacleod: Welcome to all the new arrivals to the MSc in E-Learning at the University of Edinburgh! #mscidel
Doing the "before we start" exercises for #mscidel. So enthused about starting the #mscel. #eLearning #Edinburgh
“@Kalipizzaro: A Guide To Hosting a Twitter Chat Lessons Learned From @healthfinder http://t.co/stfkUx3M” #mscidel