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The Studio Experience

Paper by Clinton and Rieber

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• Questions or Issues?

• Today – Clinton and Rieber; Kapor Chapter with Winograd mixed in

• Next Week – Papert Chapters (1991 stop reading when he starts talking about the chapters in the book)

Readings Plan

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Theoretical Constructs

• Constructionism

• Legitimate Peripheral Participation

• Self-directed Learning

• Situated Cognition (or probably Cognitive Apprenticeships)

• Scaffolding

• Flow Theory

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Constructionism

• We will also talk about this when we read Papert

• What are some of the elements of this theory?

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Legitimate Peripheral Participation

• What are some attributes of this theory used in this class?

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Self-directed Learning

• How is this self-directed?

• What can you do to help your self with self-direction?

• http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Motivation#Self-Regulated_Learning_Strategies

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Situated Cognition (or probably Cognitive Apprenticeships)

• What elements of Cognitive Apprenticeships are evident in the Studio?

• http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Cognitive_Apprenticeship#An_Introduction_to_Cognitive_Apprenticeship

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Scaffolding

• What do you have to do in the study that might be characterized as scaffolding?

• http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Scaffolding#Six_General_Elements_of_Scaffolded_Instruction

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Flow Theory

• When do you experience Flow in the Studio?

• http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Motivation#Flow_Model

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A Software Design Manifesto by Mitch Kapor

Michael Orey

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Primary Topics

• Design in Instructional Technology

• Examples of Design

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream – Vincent van Gogh

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What is design?

Fashions fade – style is eternal – Yves Saint Laurant

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Who are we?

• Are we --

• Learning Environments Engineers?

• Learning Environments Architects?

• Learning Environments Designers?

• Learning and Design Technologists?

• Better modifier that Learning Environments?

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LDT Program

• Learning only?

• Design only?

• Technical skills?

• Can you design for the computer without understanding programming?

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and the walls, but in the space within to be lived in – Lao-Tzu

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LDT Program – Based on Profile• Normal classes

• Studio

• Experience the great works?– How do we do this? Coffee table books?

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What About These?

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Firmness v. Commodity & Delight

• Where are these in educational software?

• Give me an example?

• Give me a non-example?

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge – Winston Churchill

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Form vs. Function

• Both of these are functional

• One of them is only functional

Form ever follows function – Louis H. Sullivan

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Conclusions

• Design is what we should be about

• Design is aesthetic, which is subjective

• Design is functional

• Design is organizing

• Design is imitation

• Design is transcending

• Design is ?Originality is nothing but judicious imitation – Voltaire