Hello All! Happy New Year! With this great year coming I thought it was time to start asking some new questions. 1) Should new design teachers be put through some sort of short induction course to familiarise them with some important aspects of pedagogy which I have discussed earlier? If so how woul[...]
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November 26th, 2009 - 5:32 am § in The Other Stuff
Is all hope lost?
I know I have written about this in the past but I feel I need to talk about it again. What to do…when there is almost no possible way to align your teaching (constructive alignment). Institutional forces sometimes seem to be so great that there is no way around attempting to provide a deep l[...]
November 14th, 2009 - 12:03 am § in The Other Stuff
Cumulus 38° South Hemispheric Shifts Across Learning, Teaching and Research
Today, I presented my research at the Cumulus conference. I am glad I submitted my paper for this opportunity because I managed to receive good constructive feed back to help me move this research forward. This was the third conference I have presented so far and some speakers were inspiring and som[...]
December 12th, 2008 - 11:47 am § in The Other Stuff
Preparing visually literate learners, notes from some articles
The Educator’s Role in Preparing Visually Literate Learners Susan E. Metros (2008) Metros gives us a good background on how our culture has become dependant on the visual -visual literacy: capacity to communicate instantly and universally. -advances in technology fueled shift - Some students a[...]
February 1st, 2008 - 12:47 am § in The Other Stuff
Troubles: New Views Abstract
As I mentioned in my last post since last week I have been desperately struggling to write a mere 400 words of positioning statement for the New Views 2 conference. Well, It’s done and thankfully so. I did learn a lot though from going through the process. Early on in the process I was trying [...]
April 22nd, 2007 - 6:37 pm § in The Other Stuff
Recent List
The Nature of Research into Design and Design EducationProfessor Bruce ArcherIdater, Department of Design and Technology, Loughborough University, 2007 Educating Designers in the Digital AgeMervyn KurlanskyDigital Creativity1998, Vol. 9, No. 4 pp. 218-222 Manifesto for a Digital BauhausPele EhnMalmo[...]