The game is simple: You see a word or short phrase from the 530,000 already suggested by other players, and you enter the first response that enters your head. Beyond being a great time suckage, the Human Brain Cloud has the potential to produce enormously valuable information for designers and marketers.
Co-Creating Education
There is a disconnection between goals for the learning environment and implementation. Everyone wants the classroom to be a place where students are engaged. Jerome Bruner once argued that we should create an atmosphere where students can “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment, but as information.” As theorist and feminist Nel Noddings put it: “There should be no penalty for getting things wrong.” Yet every grade inherently does just that.
Kids are messy.
Note the knees.
Carter on Blog Popularity
At lunch today I complained that we don’t get enough comments on our blog. Carter had this idea:
Carter: Well, Mom, why don’t you set it so no one knows it’s you that’s writing, and then they’ll think it’s a good blog and maybe they’ll comment.
Ummm. . . comments anyone?
Morning Madness- I have a dream. . .
I have a dream. It seems attainable- not one of those “I-want-to-build-a-solar-powered-house-next-door-to-Christopher-Walken” dreams, but a simple aspiration. I want to sleep in on Saturday morning with my spouse. Now that Carter is adept enough at remote controlling, it’s almost a possibility.
5:45am
Archie: Daddy doesn’t want to cuddle with me.
Kevin: zzzzzzz
Me: (Manage to hit the [...]
Transparency of my recent failure
For the second year, an attempt to join the CHI Doctoral Consortium has been denied. Last year, I was focusing on barriers to entry in joining online communities, and this year I switched to merging complexity and HCI design. I share my reviews and reflection on the new failure.
Why Design?
Philippe Starck gave a powerpoint-less lecture at TED last March. The topic was “Why Design?” According to Starck, we contribute to the big idea—the continued evolution of our existence—by working within our current contexts and doing the best we can to shape our world.