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What is learning? Part 1
What learning is NOT: Learning is not a process of acquiring facts. However, I used to think differently. Back in Hillsboro High School, when I used to “cram” for a test, I assumed that I could stuff...
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What makes a kid play with the same toy over and over again?
What makes a kid play with the same toy over and over again? Or, here’s another way to phrase it: What is the structure of interactions between agents which result in ongoing engagement of the...
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Some questions about social learning interactions
What are the agents in a social learning network? What are the roles played by these agents? What are the interaction types they engage in? What are some structures of interaction? What design elements...
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Fruit flies like a banana
Vote for my SXSW presentation at http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/5683 I agree about the banana, but I’m not so sure about the arrow. Not everyone conceptualizes time as a relentless hurtling...
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Visual language
Survival There is a certain survival nature in our proclivity toward pictorial information. Being able to accurately assess one’s situation at a glance is an important factor for defending as well as...
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Skills for community building
Healthy differentiation – no emotional enmeshment Effective process for conflict resolution and mediation Appreciation of one another’s unique abilities and gifts Appropriate transparency and...
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Resonance
The key to our flowering at this final stage of our evolutionary cycle lies in the simplicity of being in resonance. - Jose Argüelles The image is of Sacred Spaces village at Burning Man 2010.
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Pace and interaction design
Last summer, my friend Bill walked several hundred miles of the Camino de Santiago, a 1,000-year-old pilgrimage route through Spain and France. He started off carrying a 40-pound pack, which contained...
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Kids and time
A child, playing with the same toy over and over again, lives in a single seamless moment from dawn to dusk. She is living outside time, or maybe deeply within it. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget’s...
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Some Timely Books
This is reading list is for my talk this weekend at SXSW Interactive, It’s About Time: Visualizing Temporality, at 9:30 am Saturday, March 12. About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution—Paul Davies,...
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