2007-02-12

  • Design Cycle
    • Can prototype, but it's not necessary
    • except for the last one
    • This is not always exactly linear
      • but the presentations are due in line
      • but you may, in reality, go back and forth over them
  • James Gee
    • The principles are his own invention
    • Worth using as these as principles as a checklist
  • Literacy
    • The ability to understand and manipulate the symbols of a semiotic domain
    • Semotic domain
      • a communications "system" capable of conveying a unique message
  • Projects
    • Korean letters
      • Latin and Korean letters are taught at the same time
      • supplemental products for parents to give their kids
        • antagonistic to school?
        • or can it work in tandem?
    • Vocational literacy
      • Ideas of work and play
      • figuring out ways to make connections about jobs and careers
      • and their hobbies and other interests
    • Classical Music
      • Terms and forms
      • Applying them to current forms
    • Tourists
      • Geographic literacy
      • Navigational literacy
      • 3D Games
      • How to take a taxi
      • how to bargain with people
      • getting a metro card
    • Portugese
      • for people in a relationship with a Brazilian
      • sharing language and culture with your partner
    • Mine
      • Clay Shirky
        • Social Software
      • Rocky's Boots
        • find this?
      • StarLogo
      • Be aware that there are two issues
        • The literacy
        • The self-efficacy
      • Remember to teach the literacy with an eye toward self-efficacy
      • Look at Logo Blocks
      • and Max/MSP or Puredata
    • DJ Music
      • Newphonia Must Fall
        • by Kid Koala
      • DDR
      • Guitar Hero
      • Plastic Man
        • custom system for recording music by scratching
        • reproducing music by scratch motion
    • Visual Language of Comics
      • Time
      • Framing
      • Relationship to motion graphics
      • Using one literacy to teach another
      • See if Saul Bass has written about this
      • or Kyle Cooper
    • Food
      • learning the process for making an preparing food
      • using food to understand other cultures
      • NYT article Michael Pollan
        • Omnivore's Dilemma
      • Harvest Moon
        • raising of the animals for food
        • knowing more about your food when it's alive
    • Jewelry Making
    • Juggling
      • Tactile, kinesthetic
    • Science
      • Gravity kit
      • Politically charged
        • Are we teaching science?
        • Ever since Sputnik
      • But what is taught in school in no way represents what scientists do
      • How could we better introduce science to kids who migth have this aptitude?
    • PhysComp/Electronics
      • Soft switch
      • scrapbooking
      • bringing mothers and daughters together
      • conductive thread/paints
      • basic electronic principles
      • paper craft boxes, etc.
      • Girl Scout robotics
      • a young child could teach an adult something
      • new to the scrapbooking community
    • Context of Patterns in graphic design history
      • evoking a historical period graphically
      • changing context depending on how the pieces are put together
      • importance of hinting
      • getting the information as needed
    • Ecology/Recycling
      • making science exciting
      • understanding where stuff comes from
      • using existing materials for stuff
      • RFID chips and handheld
      • Can the learners absorb the literacy lesson?
        • Derive it from first principles
        • you could make paper without knowing anything else about ecology
  • Homework
    • Read "Rules of Play" Chap. 3-6 for 2/26
    • Presentation
      • Concept
        • What are they going to learn and why?
      • Form
        • What you want people to be doing
        • what is it?
      • Idea sketches
        • can just hold them up on paper
        • can do visual brainstorming
        • brainstorming/conversing with yourself
  • Resources
    • Content w/in the domain
    • How are others teaching content?
    • Is anyone doing anything like this?
    • Theory?
    • Metaphor
      • e.g. The Diamond Age
      • Ender's Game