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20080311?

• please read Don Schon's 1991 keynote talk for the Edinburgh AI Conference.
• other papers are uploaded too:
  • Attach:schon-curriculum-vs-inquiry.pdf
  • Attach:schon-learning-and-knowing-with-artifacts.pdf
  • Attach:schon-reflective-conversation-article-1992.pdf

(thanks Sarah!)

20080226?

• please read chaps 1 and 2 (first 20 pages) of Mark D. Gross's 1986 MIT PhD dissertation. Please note: the PDF is password protected by MIT from printing. You must read on-screen.

20080212

• met in LID and did design challenge
• see pix on page link

Session 1 Fri Sep 14

• Personal Introductions - Fred Martin, Douglas Prime, Sachiko Tosa, Michael Penta, Marcus Soule
• Desired outcomes:
  Gather insight into the design process of middle school aged children.
  Develop a shared vocabulary and understanding of this process.
  Develop a protocol and framework to formally research this process.

Session 2 Tue Sep 25

• Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross

• Analysing Design Activity by Nigel Cross, Henri Christiaans, Kees Dorst

Discussion page for Analysing Design Activity Chapter 1 Discussion page for 'Designerly Ways of Knowing Chapter 1 Discussion page for 'Designerly Ways of Knowing Chapter 2

Session 3 Fri Sep 28

• Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross

Session 4

• Designerly Ways of Knowing by Nigel Cross

Session 5? Thursday Oct 11

• Analyzing the tacit strategies of novice designers by Malcolm Welch
• How Designers Think by Bryan Lawson

Session 6? Thu Oct 18

• we read chaps 1 - 3 from The Assessment of Performance Unit design and Technology

Session 7? Thu Nov 1

• we read chaps 4 - 5 from The Assessment of Performance Unit design and Technology

Session 8? Thu Nov 8

• we will discuss chap 7 of APU -- designing the 90-minute focused tests

Session 9? Thu Nov 29

• we will discuss Chap 4 of Researching Design Learning.