Individualism Vs Collectivism

We covered following points in our module 1.

Individualism Vs collectivism

We began our session discussing the poems "Perls" by Fritz Perls (published in 1969) and "Beyond Perls" by Walter Tubb (published in 1969).
The idea was to touch the concept of individualism vs collectivism. 
Please refer following introductory blog for future interest on this topic. (https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/orudenstam/2012/10/05/individualism-vs-collectivism/)
You can also check the following link to understand cultural insights on the concept of individualism vs collectivism. (http://geert-hofstede.com/national-culture.html )

After understanding the importance of relations/groups/organization, we discussed about the pedagogy for this course.

We tried understanding experimental learning through the activity of Marshmallow challenge.                                                                

The Marshmallow Challenge

It is the activity used to create collaborative space.

The key learning's were - prototyping helps in any project designing/management; diverse skills matter; planing-execution cycle and incentives magnify outcomes.

Also the challenge basically shows facilitating skills + expert skills together decide the success of group.

Please find link for TED talk reference. 
http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower?language=en

You can read more about the marshmallow challenge @ http://marshmallowchallenge.com/Welcome.html 

Then second point in pedagogy was to decode the false notion of OB stands for OBvious..I tried showing that two very different facts - two groups felt that they know about it.

Hindsight Bias

Hindsight bias is also known as "I knew it along phenomenon". 
Where things/ learning always seem more obvious and predictable after they have already happened or you heard about them.

Please read more about it @ http://psychology.about.com/od/hindex/g/hindsight-bias.htm

Further, we discussed the evaluation pattern for the course. You can refer  your course outline for the details.
For group work - we decided to make group based on your learning style.

Learning Styles

We evaluated David Kolb's learning style by taking 9 question survey.

You got your style among - divergers, convergers, assimilators and accomodators 

Divergers are brain-stormers, Convergers are problem-solvers, assimilators are theorist and accomodators are activist/implementers.

Please read more details @ http://www.simplypsychology.org/learning-kolb.html.

Then we came to interesting part of understanding the beauty of groups.

I asked you to fill in the survey for understanding our assumptions about certain things related to group. 

1. Stanford Prison Experiment

While intuitively majority felt that "When performing some role, generally the role does not dominate over once individuality"...
Research zone brought some interesting insights about DE-individualization process one experienced while enacting certain role.
We discussed this through "Standford prison experiment". 
For simple reading
http://www.simplypsychology.org/zimbardo.html
For detailed experiment
http://www.prisonexp.org/the-story/ 
http://www.prisonexp.org/psychology/39
Further you-tube search will give you the clips from actual recording.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxUe0UbW9jU 
So counter- intuitive, conclusions were  "When performing some role, the role can dominate over once individuality"

You can check for recent movie on this experiment. 

2. Milgram Experiment

While our intuitive sense suggested that "Even if authority is defined well, one does not show the blind obedience to authority" 
Research zone revealed fascinating insights about the process of "Obedience" and how one follows the authority.

We discussed this through "Milgram's experiment"

For reading
http://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
Further you-tube search will give you the clips from actual recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr5cjyokVUs