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Instructional Design

2/19/2020

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I am just getting started in the Masters in Instructional Science Technology (MIST) program at CSUMB. So far, it seems that best practices in instructional design include several approaches as deemed appropriate for any given topic of study and/or learner cohort. Most of the best programs mix at least two or three theories to come up with the best design for any given lesson.
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     Traditional Behaviorist ideas seem to be all about feeding students information and expecting them to practice ad nausea and then regurgitate the same basic information. Based on this theory, learning is about performing new behavior. Teaching is training for new behavior. This idea was developed in the early 20th century along with psychology and other social sciences.

     Then there is the Cognitivist's ideas that take learning to a level of interaction and contemplation of the learner so they have to work with the learned information and show they can use it to produce something new. This theory suggests learning is about processing information.Teaching is transmission of new information to learner. These ideas came about after people realized that the more limited Behaviorist ideas needed tweaking to accomplish better, more comprehensive learning within many areas of study.

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     The Constructivist theory suggests that learning is about making meaning out of what you learn by doing something with it. So, it is about building on what you know. Teaching is about facilitating activity whereby learners make meaning. Constructivist theory emerged in part in response to Behaviorist and Cognitivist theories in a period of instructional reform in the United States influenced by psychology trends in Europe. Humans were no longer considered like rats or robots.
     And the Collaborative Learning Theory suggest that learning is intellectual convergence through discourse. By working in groups and building on each others knowledge base, learners cultivate understanding. Teaching is inducting learners into knowledge discourse. Collaborative activities online were the foundational inspiration of this theory in the late 1990’s into the 21st century, bringing the classroom out into the world wide web.



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     Then there is the Connectivist thoughts that come along and put it into the context of online learning and education. So, you can basically go online and get the info you need, and work with others in a cohort online to build on learners' understanding. This kind of takes teaching out of the picture and puts coaching and/or facilitating more into the front lines. Learning is pretty much up to the learner to glean from what is available to them and their team/cohort.

     Anyway, I am sure in a year or two I will be able to discuss this with much more accuracy and understanding, at least I hope so...


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Transformation Through Qigong: Intentional Wellness & Life Optimization Planing (TTQ)

2/8/2020

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   In order to accomplish deep transformational change, it is important to have a deep and honest understanding of the inside of ourselves: the physical/physiological inside of us; the emotional and psychological energetic part of us; and the spiritual part of us. If we don’t go deep inside it is very difficult to identify the root of the issues that we are facing that we would like to change. We can think of it like a computer program. Unless we know the coding of what makes us who we currently are then we can’t change the programing that manifests in our body, behavior and attitudes.
   Often we are distracted by the superficial experiences of physical appearance and sensations, emotional upsets and charges, psychological expectations, preconceived ideas and constructs that do not serve us, and of spiritual stagnation and limitations we have adopted throughout our lives. As your Sifu in "Transformation Through Qigong: Intentional Wellness and Life Optimization Planning (TTQ)" I may be able to briefly shine a flashlight into the dark places in your body, mind and life in general to give you a glimpse of the areas in you that perhaps remain hidden from your conscious view. These areas that may need attention and even transformation. But until the lights go on inside you and you can see them for your self without outside help, the shadows will remain stuck inside you.

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   Whenever one is challenged by something in life, the challenge process itself is creating new neurological pathways and relationships in the brain and shifting the thought patterns. That process of challenging one's habitual inertia is a large part of what manifests transformation of any kind in a person. If one doesn't have to struggle at least a little, then whatever you are being exposed to or whatever you are doing is already in close alignment with your preconceived ideas and/or abilities, therefore little transformation will take place. It is this challenge to your habitual inertia and comfort zone, and one's struggle to overcome that challenge that creates new pathways and relationships in your brain that help the mind change.
   So, in this context, struggle is different from suffering. Suffering is an attitude. Struggle is the effort one puts into overcoming a challenge to ones comfort zone. Surrender your suffering in the face of a challenge, and embrace whatever sort of effort you must apply to transform life into a more joyous experience no matter what external circumstances are challenging you.
   When the challenge is physical as with sport, qigong or yoga, etc., this creation of new pathways that occurs while you struggle to learn new moves, coordination and balance works on the movement centers of your brain. The new pathways in your brain build a new relationship with your body that maybe in the past you haven’t had. That is part of the growth process. You can deny that growth and give up on the struggle, or push through the challenge and benefit from the change. You must trust the process in order to embrace it.
   What can I do in teaching TTQ is to help you trust that what I am teaching is worthy of your embrace? The exercises I teach were developed long ago by people who devoted their lives to the struggle and measured the outcomes to prove that they work, and used those exercises and activities to effectively improve health, attitude and longevity.

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Surprise

2/7/2020

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   Some of us are shocked when life tosses us a curve. Some of us just don’t like surprises. I know that when my wife comes home from work with a bright idea about maybe going out for dinner, and I have planned to have dinner at home, the disruption in my expectations can lead to a little emotional upset. Instead of allowing that upset to derail my peace and order, I can try to look at her idea as an opportunity to share in her joy; and shift gears inside my brain to embrace her idea.
   How can the practice of Qi Gong and Tai Chi help us to accomplish this sudden shift in direction when met with an unexpected situation in life? How can the exercises we practice like the “Taoist 5 Organ Exercises” make a real and lasting difference in how we experience our time on this planet? I submit that one example of that lies in the Heart Exercises. As we learn the Taoist 5 set, we learn to associate certain colors, movements, emotions and concepts with each exercise. This helps us develop our relationship with our body, and integrate into that relationship our mind in the form of labeling emotions and mental constructs to fit with each organ system.
   When we do this with the heart we associate the emotions of excitement and un-met expectations with the heart so that we can cultivate peace and order to balance those emotions in order to avoid overwhelming disappointment (what traditional Chinese medicine calls a stagnant state of the heart energy). Conversely, the heart also relates to upsets with shock when we are faced with something we do not expect. How do we balance the idea of unmet expectations with shock, seeming opposites in the spectrum of balance for the heart energy?
   What if we learned to maintain a sense of peace and order in our hearts, as a balance point. And what if we go ahead and look forward to see what may be coming at us, but without too much inertia of excitement or dread, just with peace and order. This practice may allow us to meet our expected outcomes with a sense of acceptance and joy, but if things don’t turn out the way we expect, we are not overly disappointed. We meet the moment with acceptance, but maybe a little less joy then we had “expected.”
   In contrast, when a something happens to us out of the blue, so to speak, we can meet it with surprise instead of shock. So, that gives us some joy that may otherwise have been “unexpected.”
   Finding a way of navigating life’s ups and downs without becoming swamped in emotional upsets is one of the goals of Taoist practices. It is the reason for developing all these mental constructs for our emotions and relating them to movements and more steady mental states. Those are the ideas that go along with each organ system like “peace and order” go along with the heart.
   So meeting an unexpected situation with a little surprise, seeing it as an unexpected opportunity—or meeting an expected situation with a little less disappointment if it doesn’t go just like planned, are both examples of using the Taoist 5 constructs as a platform for making life a little more peaceful and hopefully a little more joyful. Both are examples of attitude adjustments instead upsets.

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