S E L F
(acronym for our 'Self Evaluated Learning Framework')
(see the breadth of our mission and some key terms including measurement
"If the purpose of education is to score well on a test, we've lost sight of the real reason for learning."
(Richard Feynman)
What is it?
- It is a simple mapping tool that helps you to navigate your situation/predicament.
What can it do for me?
- It can help you to create options and opportunities you may not have otherwise noticed.
Will it answer my questions?
- No, but it will ask you some important questions you might have overlooked.
Aren't Answers more important than Questions?
- Not always. It's true that fact-based questions need correct answers.
- But SELF doesn't do this for you (sorry - that's your responsibility).
- We think it may help you to answer VALUES-BASED questions.
Does it harness the power of AI?
- No - it was created by actual humans with actual humans and for actual humans.
- ...and AI only scavenges the left-overs of nameless people.
- AI can't think or feel in the human sense. It has no heart, limbs, or soul.
- so your conscience cannot be converted into a LLM (Large Language Model)
- Because only YOU know how you feel at any given moment.
- Only YOU know if something feels right / wrong / creepy, etc.
- YOU are the one with the imagination, so you need to do the creative thinking.
- SELF encourages to ask yourself outcome-seeking questions.
- The same applies to opportunity-seeking questions.
- Both are highly dependent on your actual situation, values & bigger context, etc..
What Do You Want the SELF framework to do?
- Please choose one of these options:
- A) Write a summary/essay/report about your work.
- B) Write a pitch for someone you'd like to work with/for.
- C) Write a pitch for someone you'd like to work with.
References
- Fonagy, P. (2018). "Affect regulation, mentalization and the development of the self". Routledge.
- Wood, J., (2013), Relational Innovation, Paper presented at the Sustainable Innovation Conference Centre for Sustainable design - 4th-5th November 2013.
- Wood, J., (2013), Heraclitus and the Tetrahedron, notes from a paper commissioned by Pernilla Glasser. It was performed at Stockholm's NobelMuseum in June 2013.
- Wood, J., (2012), In the cultivation of research excellence - is rigour a no-brainer?, article in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice; Mar 2012, Vol. 5 Issue 1, 11-26
- Wood, J., (2005) “The Tetrahedron Can Encourage Designers To Formalise More Responsible Strategies”, for the "Journal of Art, Design & Communication", Volume 3 Issue 3, Editor, Linda Drew, UK, ISSN: 1474-273X, pp. 175-192
- Taylor, P., & Wood, J., (1997), Mapping the Mapper, a chapter in "Computers, Communications, and Mental Models", eds. Donald Day & Diane Kovacs, Taylor & Francis, London, ISBN 0-7484-0543-7, pp. 37-44, January 1997.
- Wood, J., (1992), "The Notion of Relational Design"; a paper given at the 17th ICSID Conference - Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1992 May.