Tell me how your CompBook is going! If you can take a picture and attach it or send a favorite page, I would appreciate it. Have you figured out a way to make it helpful for you? I know there are lots of videos to watch as this is a compressed course. Is there a way that you have worked out watching the videos that works for you? Do you schedule a time or an activity to watch them? Do you pick the shortest ones first? Is there a way that you have managed the class for yourself that works well and tell me so that I might share it with students who are having trouble?
Did you try the Cajita project in the CompBook? What if you did it in a way that would be given to someone you care about? Tell me how it went and include a picture or video for me!
thats what i did on week 4:
Week 4 Videos to watch for class #1 of 3 sets:
Perception & Observation Exercises /How to see
Selective Attention: watch these videos and pay attention to what you notice. Some of the exercises are well known and you may have seen them before. Why is being misdirected our attention a problem? What are ways you can think of to pay better attention?
Watch as many of these as you can – they are short!
Perception:
Brain Game – Double Dutch video (3 min)
Brain Game – You don’t know what you don’t know (3 min 30 sec) Bus video Why do kids get this right and grownups get it wrong?
Perception Part 1 (7min 22 sec) Kathy’s video on How imagination works
Perception Part 2 (7 min30 sec) Kathy’s video Change Blindness
Perceiving is Believing (10min) – Hank Green Crash course in Psychology
Color:
Intro to color video Brain Games – Color (1min 30sec) Jason Silva
The Effect of Color (7min 30) – Video by Thomas Bosket
How we see motion BiStable image (4min 15) – How we perceive motion
Color Illusions (8min) – Zach King -very fun and might cheer you up!
Watch Kathy’s video – How we see color (8 min)
watch Kathy’s video continuation on How we see color (8 min 30 sec)
Watch video – The Mystery of Magenta (5 min) Steve Mould – There is no such color as magenta. Why?
How we see color (3min 40sec) – Colm Kelleher – Biology and the eye
Question Choices for set #1: Pick one question to answer (3 Points) – please label which question you are answering so I can give you the correct points, thank you:
Talking about the biology of vision can be complicated. What did you respond to the most in these videos?
How could paying attention help you be better at creating a business or invention? Explain.
What surprised you the most about the illusions
What did you write down in you CompBook for your notes on the video that you think is important to you?
What about all of these videos makes you curious? Why does it matter that we begin to understand that our brain makes up what we see? Does it freak you out a little bit? Why or why not?
Week 4 Videos to watch for class #2 of 3 sets:
Provocation /Why are we doing this?
Attention: Please watch the videos and take notes in your CompBook . We are moving away from the exercises and becoming more attuned to how we pay attention.
Selective Attention (6 min) – video essay by Evan Puschak
Watch: Kathy’s Video – Observation – Ambassadors (11 mins)
How to get better at Observing (5min)
Pay more attention to others than yourself
Notice changes
Put away distractions
Watch a movie in another language without subtitles to learn body language
Learn to link observations
Watch: When the world became a DeChirico painting (6min) Video Essay by Evan Puschak
Question choices for set #2: Pick one question to answer (3 Points) – do me a solid and label which question you are answering so I can give you the correct points, thank you:
Tell me three things that you are responding to. What is surprising you? What wasn’t that interesting.
What would be your motivation if you did want to work at observing the world more closely?
Make your own question: What do you want to talk about/tell me?
Week 4 Videos to watch for class #3 of 3 sets:
Paradigm shift /Why this matters:
Truth of Creativity
Watch: Kathy’s video- The ‘skill’ of creativity (13 min 51 sec)
Question choices for set #3: Pick one question to answer (3 Points) – do me a solid and label which question you are answering so I can give you the correct points, thank you:
Read the article: Myth of the Sole Inventor What do you think of this idea that one person is responsible for something new? Do you know of other ‘inventions’ that aren’t telling the full story? Why does this happen?
What story do you know of someone getting credit for something they didn’t deserve?
What surprises you about the process of creativity?
What other responses do you have to the video’s information?
