2. pop quiz # 1
subject : lesson plan : :
content :
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8. “ If you are a member of
that vanishing tribe,
the amateurs of fine vintages,
you will choose the crystal...
9. “ ...because everything about it
is calculated to reveal
rather than hide
the beautiful thing which
it was meant to contain.
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10. “ ...because everything about it
is calculated to reveal
rather than hide
the beautiful thing which
it was meant to contain.
— b e a t r i c e
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wa r d e
15. on henry jenkins
Education should explicitly support
participatory media because it mobilizes
young people to take action on issues
they are passionate about.
16. on ellen lupton
& g. abbott miller
Like frames, words themselves
are subjective: they evoke
different meanings for different people.
17. on michael rock
It’s true that bad form creates noise.
But good form can also be the main
inducement to engage with content.
20. on marshall mcluhan
As McLuhan argued back in 1960:
for 500 years, our thoughts have been
shaped through the solitary, even passive
study of books.
22. marshall mcluhan:
“New patterns of perception and sensibility…
are subliminally imposed on us all by
new structures for codifying and moving
information that re-create our sense of...
teaching and learning.”
23. louise sandhaus:
Cognitive perception is “like a device…
filtering and framing my vision and therefore
shaping my knowledge and experience.
How we think is what we think.”
25. on liz sanders
Co-creation empowers users
and harnesses their sense of ownership,
which seems more sustainable to me—
and more likely to yield results.
31. premises & definitions
the way in which content is presented or engaged is its form.
the form must adapt to existing noise, and it must not create its own noise.
32. premises & definitions
the way in which content is presented or engaged is its form.
the form must adapt to existing noise, and it must not create its own noise.
the successful transmission of a signal to a learner is a complex function
of form, noise, and audience.
33. richard saul wurman
“When you approach a problem, you must go
backward to find the beginning...
Only then can you ask yourself the questions
that will lead to productive solutions.”
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35. andrew blauvelt
“Relational design is preoccupied with
design’s effects... in the realm of behavior.
[It] value[s] the experiential and the
participatory... Dewey over Derrida.”
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38. more premises & definitions
learning is an internal process. it requires internal motivation.
39. more premises & definitions
learning is an internal process. it requires internal motivation.
learning requires engagement with the content.
40. more premises & definitions
learning is an internal process. it requires internal motivation.
learning requires engagement with the content.
in the absence of motivating content, form itself can be a motivator.
41. Hypothesis
rules of [student] engagement
unmotivating content motivating
noisy signal clear
form
passive mode active
42. Hypothesis
rules of [student] engagement
unmotivating content motivating
noisy signal clear
form
passive mode active
43. Hypothesis
rules of [student] engagement
unmotivating content motivating
noisy signal clear
form
passive mode active
44. Hypothesis
rules of [student] engagement
unmotivating content motivating
noisy signal clear
form
passive mode active
45. pop quiz #2
Andrew Blauvelt: “The history of design
can viewed in three successive phases,
moving from form to content
to .”
46. karin storm wood
It’s not about Shakespeare, or mitochondria,
or numerators, or the causes of the Civil War.
47. karin storm wood
It’s not about Shakespeare, or mitochondria,
or numerators, or the causes of the Civil War.
It’s about context:
The experience of the learners come first.
48. karin storm wood
It’s not about Shakespeare, or mitochondria,
or numerators, or the causes of the Civil War.
It’s about context:
The learners’ experience comes first.
Content and form follow.
