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Independent interface design researcher. Writing a book on designing novel interactive visual abstractions (novel ui concepts) for new ways of learning, teaching, explaining, discovering, inventing things online

Same handle name at bluesky

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Digital Futures for Learning
Speculative Methods and Pedagogies By Jen Ross

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003202134/digital-futures-learning-jen-ross

Speculative futures for higher education by Sian Bayne, Jen Ross

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/speculative-futures-for-higher-education

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Near Future Teaching: Practice, policy and digital education futures by Sian Bayne

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14782103211026446

Digital education utopia by Sian Bayne https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2023.2262382

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Wrote a tiny twitter thread on what could edtech be like which was in response to an article on "If bell hooks Made an LMS" by Jesse Stommel

https://www.jessestommel.com/if-bell-hooks-made-an-lms-grades-radical-openness-and-domain-of-ones-own/

https://x.com/impactology/st/impactology/status/1762428139383492642

My key argument of online learning is that it removes the need to compete to access edu because of "limitation of seats"

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The author argues LMSes can feel very mechanical and I agree, although even in physical classrooms, the teaching and assessment processes can feel very mechanical.

Wrote about my reflection on my engineering college days

Edtech isn't the problem, edtech that simply is a digital version of the pedagogy used for "teaching to the test"/ exam oriented education is the problem.

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The biggest advantage of online learning is it removes the need to compete with other people in order to get an education.

The ability to use an object/service by millions at the same time, like simultaneously without having to compete with each other

That it affords/creates transient, temporary spaces for billions of people to inhabit, use at the same time without one needing to compete with another to use it is kinda marvellous

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"One of the problems with learning management systems is that they make students (and their experiences) interchangeable. And they do the same to teachers"

Very valid critique, but I'd argue instead of throwing out the whole idea of online learning because of existing edtech designs that feel impersonal, the focus can be on how can we use the greater access online platforms provide but then design them in a way that doesn't feel mechanical

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i.e how to bring in more flexibility and autonomy for both teachers and students via online platforms, one that enables customization and personalization of learning paths.

Tools for learners to personalize their learning experience, including adjusting the interface, choosing content, and setting their own goals.

To enable learners to choose different modules or paths based on their interests, pace, and preferred learning styles.

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A system that supports non-linear learning paths, giving learners the freedom to explore topics in a way that suits their understanding and preferences, that supports open-ended exploration and inquiry

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Features that are responsive to student and teacher's needs and support iterating curriculum's design, incorporating new knowledge and emerging fields.

Maybe even features for co-creation and modification of course content to ensure relevance and engagement.

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Features for instructors to reflect on their teaching practices and adapt based on student feedback.

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In conclusion

Build a responsive platform for online learning for open ended exploration and inquiry, that counters the feeling of mechanization and lack of agency by affording customization, flexibility, iterability, co-creation both for the student and teacher.

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Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice: A Many-sided Vision by Robert Fitzgerald, Thomas William Nielsen, Mark Fettes

https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-2142-1

"This book connects a cross-section of educators, researchers and administrators in a dialogue and exploration of imaginative and creative ways of teaching, learning and conducting educational inquiry"

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@discoursology

There is an extremely unique, ubiquitous, obvious property of the digital that is not appreciated enough

The ability to use an object/service by millions at the same time, like simultaneously without having to compete with each other

That it affords/creates transient, temporary spaces for billions of people to inhabit, use at the same time without one needing to compete with another to use it is kinda marvellous

In that way I feel edtech can be liberatory.

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@CIT @discoursology

Thanks!

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@discoursology Yes, I'm going through Jen's and Sian's work. Thanks a lot!

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@discoursology Oooh this reminds me of another book

https://mastodon.social/@impactology/111958376366727260

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The Utopian UI Architect : An ex-Apple interface designer’s — Bret Victor's 40-year plan to redesign not just the way we use computers, but the way we think with them

https://medium.com/re-form/the-utopian-ui-architect-34dead42a28

“We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says.

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"When Victor designs a software interface, he doesn’t do it to deliver functionality — he does it to advance an argument"

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"In the introduction to his “Kill Math” project...

Victor declares that “the power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols"

https://worrydream.com/KillMath/

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"With the invention of the printing press, we invented a form of knowledge work which meant sitting at a desk, staring at little tiny rectangles and moving your hand a little bit. It used to be those tiny rectangles were papers or books and you’re moving your hand with a pen"

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"Now we’re staring at computer screens and moving our hands on a keyboard, but it’s basically the same thing. We’re computer users thinking paper thoughts"

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"So what would “post-paper” thoughts look like? Victor admits he has no idea. He just has a conviction about the medium that will enable them"

"The important thing isn’t thinking about computers or programming as they are today, but thinking about moving from a static medium like marks on paper to a dynamic medium with computational responsiveness infused into it, that can actually participate in the thinking process"

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"To Victor, whether the UI of the future relies on interactive screens and graphics, data mapped onto tangible objects and materials, or something in between, is beside the point"

"One of the big barriers with computers today is certainly the physical interface, but this isn’t a technology problem"

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"The bigger part of it is just in finding the right ways of thinking, finding the right representations of abstractions, so people can think thoughts that they couldn’t think before"

YES!

A ui innovation doesn't just "solve" a problem, render a set of interactions, cater to people's needs or whatever or simplify but actually introduce entirely new ways of being, new ways of thinking about stuff

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"The example I like to give is back in the days of Roman numerals, basic multiplication was considered this incredibly technical concept that only official mathematicians could handle"

"But then once Arabic numerals came around, you could actually do arithmetic on paper, and we found that 7-year-olds can understand multiplication. It’s not that multiplication itself was difficult. It was just that the representation of numbers — the interface — was wrong"

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@tinstargames interface

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Radical Constructivism in Mathematics Education by Ernst Glasersfeld https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/0-306-47201-5

" The common conviction is that knowledge cannot simply be transferred ready-made from parent to child or from teacher to student but has to be actively built up by each learner in his or her own mind"

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@melissawm here https://annas-archive.org/md5/7a3aba7cefb39ef27495b2a34e4c704e

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