Researcher Huw Lloyd, fluent in numerous mental models, is a good explainer of concepts -- including many I was completely unversed in. A few threads run through the entirety of this chat: development, self-awareness, and construing an active orientation to any given situation.
SECTION 1: Our pathways to Vygotsky
0:36 - Reflections on Huw's recent "Vygotsky and Parenting" (http://tiny.cc/ymqpsz)
1:45 - Pros and cons of taking scholarly shortcuts
6:07 - Huw's arrival to Vygotsky, in part through dissatisfaction elsewhere
SECTION 2: Huw's ideas about Active Orientation
16:38 - What is Active Orientation?
23:30 - Is Active Orientation a practice? (An exercise in self awareness)
31:58 - Active Orientation can be documented (microgenesis research of Huw's)
SECTION 3: What is Developmental Education?
40:37 - A primer on Davydov and Developmental Education
46:07 - Empirical thinking vs. Theoretical thinking
50:23 - Grokking the material and the History of ideas
52:59 - Problems are Good
55:40 - An illustrative lesson of Davydov's
1:03:43 - Some key characteristics of developmental education
1:07:41 - Crises, construals, and neoformations
1:10:20 - The Desert Oak: a developmental TRIZ problem
SECTION 4: Imagination and Confidence-building
1:16:07 - Imagination, flow, and problem-solving
1:24:10 - Systems and Design Ideas (TRIZ approach)
1:30:22 - Earned, authoritative confidence: Your tempered ideas are become Real
1:35:20 - The importance of problem-construal or framing
1:48:04 - Problem-creating, -solving, and -construing
1:53:51 - This is rich, highly concentrated material (Foundational, generative, "unfoldable" concepts)
1:55:27 - Notational vs. developmental education (and epistemology)
1:57:10 - Final two questions (adult-development & advice for problem-designers)
2:06:20 - Complex vs. complicated (and self-regulation and distance learning)
2:09:46 - An idea for lunch (as promised: http://tiny.cc/bvqpsz)
References:
http://tiny.cc/5vqpsz - "A Study of Active Orientation" (brief introduction)
http://tiny.cc/2xqpsz - "TRIZ: a Powerful Methodology for Creative Problem Solving"
http://tiny.cc/dxqpsz - "Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning"
