impactology, 2 months ago

An old mastodon thread on tips to come up with a lesson plan for yourself/research inquiry that I came up with while chatting with @dahukanna

(This is more oriented towards people who prefer a self-directed learning interdisciplinary learning approach and whose end goal is to materialize the research to build things)

https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/111670004660887417

A newer addition to it on ways you might figure out a criteria for book, paper selection out of the hundreds and thousands of lit you've gathered.

Comparing and Contrasting with a list of questions from the domains you are interested in Next create a list of questions researchers in the fields you are interested are asking and compare and contrast the similarities and differences in both the lists, using that you can then find intersections between the questions you are interested in and the people whose literature you have curated and as you find overlaps between the questions, you can use that as an example to further narrow down more literature. Basically the goal is not to do a narrow lit review of any one specific field but rather for the purpose of design and your project’s pragmatist, utilitarian goal, to use the relevant literature for inspiration. Also the answers from that earlier exercise of self-reflection via can be used to extract a list of keywords that can serve as prompts for imagining attributes of the ideal outcome or the form in which you imagine your artefact to be. Basically to help build a vision, those attributes and the resulting vision can also help you form a list of themes that are important for your project which can serve as criteria for the selection of the literature