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Interface Design, Cognition, and Creativity
I just finished watching Bruce Sterling‘s speech at the “Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign” conference. Though a science fiction writer by profession, he’s become more and more immersed in the world of design, first as a vehicle into his fiction and eventually as the direct object of his study and thinking. Primary Point: Reducing Cognitive Load The main [...]
Continue reading...Zoom: Errol Morris
Thursday, April 10, 2008
I had the privilege of meeting with Errol Morris back in the late ’90s. He came to Mary Washington College to speak at an engagement that Professor Gardner Campbell had arranged. I was in Professor Campbell’s film theory class at the time, and we had viewed a number of Morris’s films.1 At the time, Morris [...]
Continue reading...Fiction and Consciousness
Friday, November 17, 2006
I’ve been reading 2012 and just came across a passage that struck me as particularly helpful in thinking about how and why fiction works. The author, Daniel Pinchbeck, is quoting F. David Peat and discussing the concept of synchronicity, that phenomenon that is usually brushed off as “just a weird coincidence.” Peat says: It is [...]
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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
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It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
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