{"id":354,"date":"2012-12-03T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/?p=354"},"modified":"2012-12-03T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T19:00:34","slug":"sanna-and-ville-possible-approaches-to-your-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/2012\/12\/03\/sanna-and-ville-possible-approaches-to-your-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanna and Ville: Possible approaches to your projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sanna-Kaisa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Sanna-Kaisa, the target group consists of underage pupils to be (or to get them) interested in exploring and understanding a foreign language and culture.<br \/>\nYou already participated in a project to test\u00a0Finnish students&#8217; knowledge on\u00a0German culture and language:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www03.edu.fi\/oppimateriaalit\/puutarhatonttu\/\">http:\/\/www03.edu.fi\/oppimateriaalit\/puutarhatonttu\/<\/a> (the material seems a bit outdated, though; East and West Germany are already united \ud83d\ude09 )<br \/>\nThe approach here is behavioristic, with straightforward tests and rewards, which is a form that is easier to implement than problem-solving approaches and does not require an elaborate software-environment or a community of dedicated users to be online.<\/p>\n<p>Questions could be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What should be &#8216;learned&#8217;, what kind of behavioral modification is striven for in the first place?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of transfer of the learned knowledge, competences, skills is wished for?<\/li>\n<li>What form does the acquired knowledge have, can it be tested and (socially) rewarded somehow?<\/li>\n<li>What medial format can the instructions have, how can a task, challenge or problem be applied to this format?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cultures and languages are our way of making sense of our reality, so it&#8217;s very hard to see them as arbitrary constructs because our whole social existence depends on them (see e.g. Berger &amp; Luckman &#8220;Social Construction of Reality&#8221; or Maturana &amp; Varela &#8220;The Tree of Knowledge&#8221;).<br \/>\nWhat intrigues us, if we travel to foreign countries? What stays in our memory?<br \/>\nUsually it&#8217;s not the similarities (especially if you&#8217;re young), but the strange differences:<br \/>\nThe Germans have words for 1, 2, 3, they love football, they like to travel&#8230; but some things they do very differently from a Fin in the same situation.<\/p>\n<p>From a cognitivistic or even constructivist point of view, a good introduction to a foreign culture would be to present it as a puzzle, a mystery to be solved by an intrepid traveller (or viewer, or internet-user). There would be more than one way to solve this puzzle (as in real life), and the &#8216;lesson&#8217; would be a successful one if it is deemed to be retold as a nice story by the learner (&#8220;Do you know &#8211; that in Germany they do X instead of Y?&#8221;). Goal of a game could be to find out what the difference is, why it is there, or what it does mean.<\/p>\n<p>There is a highly successful video-clip series produced by ARTE-TV, &#8220;Karambolage&#8221;, a german-french-co-production, that in the end always presents a small puzzle, a mystery for explaining the subtle or open differences between Germany and France. Main topics were always a small, intriguing differences between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/videos.arte.tv\/de\/videos\/karambolage-sendung-vom-04-november-2012--7033412.html\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-355\" title=\"Karambolage\" src=\"http:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/files\/2012\/12\/Karambolage-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/files\/2012\/12\/Karambolage-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/files\/2012\/12\/Karambolage.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/videos.arte.tv\/de\/videos\/karambolage-sendung-vom-04-november-2012--7033412.html\">http:\/\/videos.arte.tv\/de\/videos\/karambolage-sendung-vom-04-november-2012&#8211;7033412.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A typical puzzle can be seen at Minute 9:43 &#8211; where does this small scene, 30 seconds long, happens &#8211; in Germany or in France?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Recommendations to read and view:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watzlawick&#8217;s examples for cultural differences in interpreting social behavior (Dropbox)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Situated_cognition\">Situated Cognition, a constructivist approach to learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s_s45lc8hVE\">A BBC-video about the Himba-tribe and their different words for colors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The same phenomenon, a comic strip by John T. McCutcheon (1912): &#8220;Things Don&#8217;t Seem Wonderful If You&#8217;ve Seen Them All Your Life&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CenturyAgoToday\/status\/189522694801326080\/photo\/1\">The <em>different<\/em> thing is more intriguing than the known thing &#8211; and this depends on culture, on age, on gender, on class&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Ville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Ville, these are employees that have to read regularly updated instructions to spare their employer the costs of maloperation. If reading the instruction isn&#8217;t embedded in a more complex set of desired behavior, but is an isolated, repeated task with only content changing and no further transfer needed, I think a gamification approach, mostly based on behavioristic principles of reward, may be best suited.<\/p>\n<p>Questions could be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What should be &#8216;learned&#8217;, what kind of behavioral modification is striven for in the first place?<\/li>\n<li>Is the depth of acquired knowledge from the instruction as important as getting the employees to red the instructions at all?<\/li>\n<li>What form does the acquired knowledge have, when the instruction has been read, how can this form be tested an rewarded?<\/li>\n<li>What medial format does the instructions have, how can a stimulus be technically applied to this format?<\/li>\n<li>What would be the best &#8216;reinforcers&#8217;, the most fitting rewards for the wished for behavior? (caveat: a reward may loose its motivating appeal over time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanna-Kaisa For Sanna-Kaisa, the target group consists of underage pupils to be (or to get them) interested in exploring and understanding a foreign language and culture. You already participated in a project to test\u00a0Finnish students&#8217; knowledge on\u00a0German culture and language:\u00a0http:\/\/www03.edu.fi\/oppimateriaalit\/puutarhatonttu\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/2012\/12\/03\/sanna-and-ville-possible-approaches-to-your-projects\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-english","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edublog.me\/spielzuegeundregelbrueche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}