The Game of Life Self-Regulation Via Analog Learning and E- Learning ICELW, June 12 2013, Columbia University, NY Richard Pircher, Prof. (FH) Dr. University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna, Austria [email protected] Slides are available at 1
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The Game of Life Self-Regulation
Via Analog Learning and E-Learning
ICELW, June 12 2013, Columbia University, NY
Richard Pircher, Prof. (FH) Dr.University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna, Austria
[email protected] Slides are available at http://richard-pircher.net
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I would like to offer you a piece of this traditional Viennese wafer
Please don´t eat it!
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The Marshmallow Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3S0xS2hdi4
The Mature Marshmallow Test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQvBrEEYS20
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The difficulty to resist inner temptation
… this video and the Viennese wafer may serve as a reminder of how difficult it may be to resist inner temptation
… and there will also be some more wafers available at the end of the presentation if you resisted
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Self-regulation
“The need to • delay gratification, • control impulses, and • modulate emotional expression is the earliest and most ubiquitous demand that societies place on their children”
PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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Self-regulation
• Self-regulation means to be able to be goal-oriented, context-specific and to inhibit affective impulses
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Self-regulation• Self-regulation (respectively executive functions)
consists of:– Inhibition of behaviour and attention – the
ability to pursue a goal despite distracting stimuli
–Working memory – the ability to memorize content for further processing
–Cognitive flexibility – the ability to adapt to new requirements and to change one‘s point of view regarding people, situations and abilities
Note: the terms „self-regulation“, „self-control“ and „executive functions“ will not be distinguished here.
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PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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Initial question
Is self-regulation important for the health, wealth, and public safety of the population?
PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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Empirical study
• The study followed a cohort of 1,000 children from birth to the age of 32 years.
• The effects of children’s self-control could be disentangled from their intelligence and social class as well as from mistakes they made as adolescents.
PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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Empirical results
PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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high childhood self-control
Empirical results
high childhood self-control
much lower probability of poor physical health and drug addiction
much higher probability of good socioeconomic status and income
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Empirical results
PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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Empirical results
high childhood self-control
much lower probability of single-parent child-rearing
high childhood self-control
much lower probability of adult criminal conviction
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Empirical results• It is shown that childhood self-control
predicts:physical health, drug addiction, personal finances, and criminal offence outcomes, follow a gradient of self-control
• Self-control is more important than intelligence and social class
PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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It´s never too late
• What would happen if we were able to intervene and improve children’s self-control. Would an increase in self-control predict better outcomes?
• Those children who became more self-controlled from childhood to young adulthood had better outcomes by the age of 32 years
PNAS | February 15, 2011 | vol. 108 | no. 7 | 2693–2698 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1010076108
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Creativity?
My comment on creativity:An artist or an innovator needs to have self-regulative competencies in order to be able to finish a painting, do rehearsals, excercises, develop an idea and turn it into a new product, etc.Left: Venus of Galgenberg („Fanny“), appr. 30,000 years ago, Museum of Natural History in Vienna, AustriaTop: Head of a Buddha, Northern Qi Dynasty, ca. 570, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkBottom: Pablo Picasso: Gertrud Stein, 1905-6, Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
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Conclusion
If we would support the development of self-regulation at all ages this would help to reduce several important social problemslike poverty, crime, drug addiction and poor health
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How to develop self-regulation?
Challenges which require …• inhibition of impulses• adjustment to changing rules• to combine cognitive, physical and social
activities support the development of self-regulation
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Analog learning for fostering self-regulation
http://www.znl-fex.de/ http://www.wehrfritz.de (in German)
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Analog learning – let´s fex
• One side of the card is shown to the player• At the same time, the player is given a command:
either to do the same or the opposite
http://www.znl-fex.de/ http://www.wehrfritz.de (in German)
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Analog learning – let´s fex
• Level 1: The player should do what is shown on the card.
• Level 2: The player should do the opposite of what is shown on the card.
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Analog learning – let´s fex
• Level 3: The player should do what is shown on the card only if a wooden mascot is raised. Otherwise she is expected to say “let´s fex”!
• Level 4: The player should do the opposite of what is shown on the card only if a wooden mascot is raised. Otherwise she is expected to say “let´s fex”!
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Alien Game: Being a Space Ranger • Aliens are hungry or thirsty• The player has to feed aliens according to
their needs • Some times, the rules defining who needs
what, change
http://psychologie.univie.ac.at/games4resilience http://youtu.be/XkOdke-Llus http://youtu.be/-Spp6VcwVQQ (in German)
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Games fostering the development of self-regulation
These games support the development of self-regulation because they require …• inhibition of impulses• adjustment to changing rules• the combing of cognitive, physical and
social activities
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Summary
• Self-control is a key factor for the development of individuals and our societies
• Games and teaching methods may foster these competencies
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Significance for you?
The next time, when you are doing your work, I would like you to ask yourself the following question:
Could what I am doing help the learners to improve their self-control as well?
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Richard PircherUniversity of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna, Austria
Slides are available at http://richard-pircher.net
Please feel free to take some more wafers!
I would be happy to answer your questions!