Jason Haas and Vanessa Gennarelli presented to Dr. Mitchell Resnick's MAS 714 Course "Technologies for Creative Learning" at MIT Media Lab, December 6, 2011

1. reflection: old skool and
new skool
December 6th, 2011

2. Journal
• Handwritten
Thought Storage
• Mobile?

3. Gazebo
• Fixed,
specialized
location

4. Meditation Bells
• The sonic creation of reflective space

5. Tarot
• A very likely
random portrait
of reality

6. Sand Mandala
• Highly ritualized: process, creation & destruction

7. FourSquare
• Location-based social networking for mobile devices
• Users check in to their location, share with friends,
unlock badges
• FourSquare can push information to your mobile

8. Amazon’s Highlighting
Feature
• Amazon’s ereader
allows users to
highlight and share
passages
• “Popular Highlights”
feature shows what
other users have
highlighted
• Amazon keeps
record of your
highlights and notes

9. Wordle
• Visualization of written text, tag cloud of
weighted data

10. Joe Ergo
• Desktop
application
that reminds
user to stretch
• Demonstrates
stretching
exercises, user
sets intervals
for reminders

11. e-portfolios
• electronic evidence collected and managed
by a user

12. Activity
• Choose 2 tools
• What are the qualities of each platform that could allow for or
prompt reflection?
• How would one use them for reflection in their everyday lives?
• We’ll take 15 minutes
OLD SKOOL NEW SKOOL
• Journal • FourSquare
• Gazebo • Social highlighting
• Meditation Bells • Wordle
• Tarot Cards • Stretching software
• Sand Mandalas • Eportfolios

13. Reflection Ideas
• History channel--when
folks check in, historical
facts are pushed to them.
• FourSquare reminds you
what you were doing 1
year ago today.

14. Group Reflection
Tesseract
• What is reflection for?

15. Group Reflection
Tesseract
• What is reflection for?
• How can we value and model reflection in
the technologies we create?