Category: Readings

Design… what?

It seems apparent that design fiction will become a prominent platform for experimenting, learning, and practice in academia, or in other words, design fiction as pedagogic practice.  One of the definitions of design fiction is “an approach to design that speculates about new ideas through prototyping and storytelling”, as said by Torie Bosch in her article.

“It’s the deliberate use of diegetic prototypes to suspend disbelief of change.” – Bruce Sterling

This is one of the examples of design fiction that I think is worth noting,

From what I understand, design fiction is learning through imagination, considering the fact that the human mind is the most powerful tool one could have. I mean, just a decade ago we were talking about automated cars.

I agree on the note that Ward has pointed out in his work, saying that tons of unwanted or unused proposals, prototypes and concepts are thrown out there. The only thing that’s stopping us from realizing is the practicality, possibility and temporality.  Given the progress of technology and the ever growing field of design fiction, imaginations may soon become reality.

Right, blogging.

I consider myself an early trend adapter. The blogging was consistent for a fortnight or so, and then it hit me. The regularity was starting to bore me, and there I was wondering what was the actual purpose of blogging and hoping that me and blogging would go our separate and parallel ways. Maybe, one day, I would look back and mock my old self for the ridiculous number of posts ranting about basically everything that didn’t go my way.

So, here I am, answering questions that I set out many years ago. According to the first week’s reading, “Blogs in Media Education” by Adrian Miles, blogging doesn’t mean replicating print literacy but instead is a professional analysis of print literacy and research. The point that was relevant to myself was that if blogging was not strongly enforced into the learning process, students, like myself, would treat blogging as a rote activity, as said by Miles himself.

Glogowski writes,

Do not use blogs to replace writing or reader-response journals. If the only goal is to get students to write online what they would otherwise put in their notebooks, it’s probably not worth the hassle. Blogs can do much, much more. Use blogs to enhance personal journals. Take advantage of the community-building potential. Let students work as a group of individual writers.

 

Do check out Mardi’s post for a further read on the subject.

Symposium: The First

Today marks the beginning of the symposiums that will be held weekly throughout the summer.

Single loop and double loop learning mainly takes decision making into consideration, having that most people make decisions based on results and consequences then reevaluate from  their actions. In my way of understanding, action strategy can be more easily understood by say, the way you go about things.

I have come to realization that blogging will be a routine now and instead of being spoon-fed information like how I am used to, the process of gaining knowledge in a give and take basis over the course of 6 weeks will (hopefully) be more effective for me.

Fingers crossed.