Reading:
“ASAP Benefit Cost Report”, Levin 2013 (he’s going to talk in class next week 🙂
Notes:
Followup:
Investing in education pays back in future taxes.
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Reading:
“ASAP Benefit Cost Report”, Levin 2013 (he’s going to talk in class next week 🙂
Notes:
Followup:
Investing in education pays back in future taxes.
Reading:
Notes:
Assignment:
Submit 3 paragraphs synthesizing the article. Describe the big idea, articulate any questions or concerns it brings up for you, and reflect on how it might inform the design of a learning tool.
Bonus: can you think of a time when you yourself developed an interest in this way? After submitting, take five minutes to read the responses of other students (if you’re first, you might have to come back later”. “Like” anyone whose story is similar to your own experience.
Response:
The big idea I got out of this article is that levels of interest can be more easily categorized, described, measured and improved if the described Four-Phase Model of Interest Development is utilized.
The model’s main hypothesis is that the interaction of affect and knowledge along with positive feelings and opportunities are key factors in developing “well-developed individual interest”.
The model makes a distinction between “situational” and “individual” where the first involves interaction with the environment and the latter involves an internal initiation.
Each phase is further broken down into “triggered and maintained” and “emerging and well-developed”.
Situational Interest | Triggered | Short-term – affective & cognitive processing – aroused by external environment |
Maintained | Focused attention and persistence – project based learning, group work… | |
Individual Interest | Emerging | Predisposition to seek repeated reengagement – starts asking questions |
Well-developed | Enduring predisposition – develop own theories, seeks further sources of information – research |
The model seemed to have quite a practical approach in offering a framework to measure levels of interest in learners. The way that affect and knowledge were intertwined, dependent and mutually feeding made tremendous sense to me.
A personal example: paragliding.
Note that in the past 30 years I did not seek to fly on my own.The interest level regressed to the situational interest since, when provided with the opportunity (trip to Cape Town for example), I engaged in a tandem flight.
While reading the article I also loosely correlated the 4 phases into:
This model could be used to assess interest generation potential of features within the design process of learning tools. You could design the tool to offer specific content/activities directed to each phase of interest the learner is at. You could classify learners into each phase and attempt to ‘promote’ them to the next level with the appropriate actions.
Class Notes:
Notes Followup:
Sheena Iyengar – Ted Talks
Met on Thursday with Paulo Blikstein, my academic advisor.
Interesting insights about Silicon Valley’s EdTech market and Bay Area culture.
Explored the PhD route and potential activities in Brasil.
Talked about internship at his lab in the winter quarter. Create my own idea – AppleTV OS?