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
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