The Trap of Unconscious Competence?
My mother used to call and ask me to come over and fix her computer. While she could tell when there was something wrong with it ("It says it can't…
Personal Context & Gardening Success
We’ve done it! We're at the last 2 pieces of the Performance Model: Personal Factors and Fixed Factors. The previous blog entry was Context, which was really context of the…
The Where, When, and How of Piracy
We’ve worked our way through the identity, learning skills, and knowledge parts of the Performance Model and the pieces left are context, personal factors, and fixed factors. Context is next…
Cultivating Students
Previously, we looked at the skills that different performances require, ultimately focusing on learning skills, which are embedded in everyday behavior and operate in conjunction with specialized knowledge. That specialized…
Pirate Skills
As we noted in the previous post, if we want to understand or improve important performances, we need to appreciate that there are multiple aspects to performance itself, any one…
Identity and Performance…and Gardening
Take a moment to think about all the things you know how to do well. Choose one that really matters to you. It can be part of what you do…
Building Behaviors for the Future
Long-term behaviors are the optimal starting place when designing a course. As much as we might wish we had a Transmogrifier (a la Calvin and Hobbes) that we could use…
Failure for Dummies
One of the hallmarks of a quality learning environment is that it permits learners to fail. We might conclude that the primary reason is that without the possibility of failure,…
Is Simply LETTING Our Students Fail Enough?
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. Michael Korda Professor Vinit Desai (University of Colorado Denver Business School), says that…
Choosing Celebration Instead of Regret
In Buddhism, desire is thought to be the cause of all suffering. One extremely common kind of desire is regret: the wish for that which is contrary to reality. You…