Habitat, Feedback, Frame

Habitat, Feedback, Frame: Three metaphors for learning environments

Dr. Gardner CampbellDirector, Academy for Teaching & Learning

Baylor Universitywww.gardnercampbell.net

Our Shared Reality, 2009

“We are living in the middle of the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race.”

Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

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Flickr Photo by David Anthony Porterhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/davidaporter/

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“Millicomputing,” Adrian Cockrofthttp://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3871.html

ON THE WAY:1080p video playback10 x today’s web surfing speed20 megapixel camera130 hours of audio playbackon a mobile device.

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Our assumptions about learning are fundamentally flawed

Dr. Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard University

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code

You might regard it as the womb of the Institute. It is kind of messy, but by God it is procreative! [Jerome Y. Lettvin, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering.]

Photo and quotations: http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/mithistory/building20/

I think it [Building 20] is a place where things start…. [Y]ou not only start things but you also start [them] with a certain independence of mind. It's this attitude that I think you should look for in a place.... It doesn't matter that it's dirty and noisy and hot. The important thing [is] the people. [Professor Jerrold Zacharias]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wfm_stata_center.jpg

The Stata Center, MIT

Photo by Yoshi: http://www.flickr.com/photos/niwru/406431361/

“Lessons from Lucasfilm’s Habitat”

“[What] people seek in a virtual world is richness, complexity, and depth…. Our approach … [was] to use the computational medium to augment the communications channels between real people.”

--Morningstar and Farmer, 1991

The liberal arts / gen. ed. “hazing.” See T. Clydesdale, The First Year Out (U. Chicago Press, 2007)

http://web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/teal.html

Photo by Jeff Steely: http://jeffsteely.blogspot.com/2009/09/layers-of-learning.html

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http://courseblogs.gardnercampbell.net/baylor_nms_f09/

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1. Did you read the material for today’s class meeting carefully? No=0, Yes, once=1, Yes, more than once=22. Did you come to class today with questions or with items you’re eager to discuss? No=0, Yes, one=1, Yes, more than one=23. Since we last met, did you talk at length to a classmate or classmates about either

the last class meeting or today’s meeting? No=0, Yes, one person=1, Yes, more than one person=24. Since our last meeting, did you read any unassigned material related to this course

of study? No=0, Yes, one item=1, Yes, more than one item=25. Since our last class meeting, how much time have you spent reflecting on this

course of study and recent class meetings? None to 29 minutes=0, 30 minutes to an hour=1, over an hour=2

Flickr Photo by Leezie5: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leeziet/

“Curiosity is a gift, a capacity for pleasure in knowing.”John Ruskin, 1819

“Lessons from Lucasfilm’s Habitat”

“It is really not a problem if every apartment building looks pretty much like every other. It is a big problem if every enchanted forest looks the same. Places whose value lies in their uniqueness, or at least in their differentiation from the places around them, need to be crafted by hand.”

--Morningstar and Farmer, 1991