02.01.09 week 4

1. 02.01.09 week 4 text • Psychological Perspectives 1 • Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1999). If we are so rich, why aren't we happy? • Ryan, R., & Deci, E. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. • Malone, T. & Lepper, M. (1987). Making learning fun: A taxonomy of intrinsic motivations of learning.

2. assignments text • Topic: Filmmaking • Guest: Bob Albers, documentary filmmaker • Submit Inquiry Project Ideas • Submit Ideas & Inspirations Journal (4 entries) • Do readings • See a documentary film

3. inquiry & design project text Submit a short description of an educative experience you might create as a way to explore some ideas related to this class. This project is an opportunity for you to explore the nature and design of compelling experiences. Your task is to try to create a compelling experience for an audience and, in doing so, come to better understand its nature and design. This project consists of at least two parts. One is the designed materials and experience itself; the other is your thoughts on the design and nature of this experience. The project and a presentation are due at the end of the semester

4. readings text Required Groh-Storytelling: The film-maker as storyteller http://www.creatingthe21stcentury.org/Katalina.html Rabiger, M. The preparation before the shooting. From Directing the Documentary. Chap3 (parts 1 & 2).

5. theater session - reactions? text What did this experience suggest about the nature and design of compelling experiences?

6. strategies for revealing the nature & design text Observe the language used to describe when something is “working” or not? Why doesn’t something work? What changes when it’s not working? Compare variations on a theme. Ask how they train people in their profession. Describe an analogous experience, put it in other words Observe body language

7. what has gotten into you? text Text

8. update: resource wiki & community blog text Text

9. activity: a view from a perspective text • In small groups, take one of this week’s psychological perspectives and “look at” an engaging experience you had. Be prepared to analyze several examples for the class. • Analysis • In what ways did it “fit” your experience? • In what ways did it not “fit”? • Other insights?

10. csikszentmihalyi - money, happiness, flow text Money, Happiness, & Flow How does Csik set up his argument? If “flow” is the answer, what was the question?

11. flow text Flow describes a particular kind of experience that is so engrossing and enjoyable that it becomes autotelic, that is, worth doing for its own sake even though it may have no consequence outside itself.

12. characteristics of flow text • - feel as though you almost don't exist • - being somehow separate from the routines of everyday life. • involvement in the activity so demanding that no surplus attention is left to monitor any stimuli irrelevant to the task at hand • sense of effortless performance • one has to be in control of the activity to experience it, yet one should not try to consciously control what one is doing. • effortless • clear awareness of what is happening • get immediate feedback of how they are doing • abilities match the challenges of the task

13. deci & ryan: self-determination theory text “…factors have been examined that enhance versus undermine intrinsic motivation, self-regulation, and well-being. The findings have led to the postulate of three innate psychological needs—competence, autonomy, and relatedness—which when satisfied yield enhanced self-motivation and mental health and when thwarted lead to diminished motivation and well-being.”

14. self-determination theory text The fullest representations of humanity show people to be curious, vital, and self-motivated. At their best, they are agentic and inspired, striving to learn; extend themselves; master new skills; and apply their talents responsibly.

15. self-determination theory text Perhaps no single phenomenon reflects the positive potential of human nature as much as intrinsic motivation, the inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise one's capacities, to explore, and to learn.

16. self-determination theory text Comparisons between people whose motivation is authentic (literally, self-authored or endorsed) and those who are merely externally controlled for an action typically reveal that the former, relative to the latter, have more interest, excitement, and confidence, which in turn is manifest both as enhanced performance, persistence, and creativity, self-esteem, and general well-being

17. self-determination theory text • Three innate needs • Competence: a sense of efficacy • Autonomy: a sense of an internal locus of control • Relatedness: a sense of social security and relatedness

18. malone: qualities of engaging games text • Challenge • - obvious and compelling goal • uncertain outcome • self-esteem

19. malone: qualities of engaging games text • Fantasy • degree of social or physical impossibility

20. malone: qualities of engaging games text • Curiosity • optimum level of informational complexity; novel and surprising, but not incomprehensible • sensory and cognitive curiosity

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