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Meaningful design and Education
So earlier i wrote about the field of product design and the way in which the entire profession needs to be saved, as it is moving in a direction that is fueling its demise. Product design needs to return to making meaningful objects that as Elaine Scarry says “are aware of our pain.” One of ...
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Grading a school
An article on Good about determining whether or not students are ready to go to college right out of highschool. One of the noticeable trends that is happening in regards to this is that highschools are now figuring out how to grade themselves. Here is a quote: Florida also collects data on the performance of ...
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The value of the classroom?
Edupunk’d Can the innovative ‘do-it-yourself’ education movement really replace the dying university model? The above was a very interesting article talking about some of the debate going on around the classroom and the internet and the DIY education movement. In many ways it is summarizing and in part responding to many of the issues ...
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Learning, Part 2: Learning & Information
Last post in this series (Learning 1), I talked about the basic structure of a classroom experience, and Rostislav followed up with a post on the elements of a classroom (found here). This post, I want to discuss some more ideas concerning active learning and the goals of education, and the purpose of this website ...
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North Korea at the Abyss of Anarchy: Urgent Need for Political Reform
North Korea at the Abyss of Anarchy: Urgent Need for Political Reform Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, located in Eastern Asia covers the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and sits between China and South Korea. With a population of almost 23 million, and a median age range of thirty-three years, one would assume it ...
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Classroom
A classroom in its most basic definition is a location in which a student and teacher engage in the act of learning and teaching. From that we can begin to maybe define why it is important. The classroom is a place that is meant to foster learning. The ways in which it fosters learning is ...
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Ideas Worth Spreading
This evening, Rostislav, Boris and I spent hours sitting in both the cold and in a cafe debating about “ideas worth spreading”, or what amounted to an argument about sharing (or communism/socialism, as some people prefer to call it). As readers may know, “Ideas Worth Spreading” is the tagline of TED events (TED standing for ...
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TEDx MidAtlantic, a brief summary
Last week, I attended the TEDx conference in Washington DC. It was great to just drive down and have some time off from New York and the New School, but moreover, it was a great experience, seeing so many people working in the field of realizing ideas. Worth all the sleep I missed and all ...
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Divergent Thinking and The Game of GO
In an earlier post i talked about what it is to be a designer and the ways in which we can teach that kind of thought process. This was where i began to write about pictionary and sharades and how those seem to me to teach that kind of thought. Well, apparently there exists a ...
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Abolishing the home as a means of ensuring the future
Here is the latest revision of the theoretical framework on the paper that i am writing about mans relation to the artificial. The argument has developed a bit since then and in essence become more concise. The argument runs as follows. In his lecture at Parsons, Clive Dilnot sets before us the scenario that man ...
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On Augusto Boal, Aristotle and Art
So as i have mentioned previously, i am now in a process of self-teaching myself theater and the potential implications that it has for education. One of the books that my teachers recommended i read is “Theatre of the Oppressed” by Augusto Boal. Now i will go into what the book is about after i ...
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Design Knowledge
Recently there has been a lot of talk at Parsons on what a Design Phd, could look like. Would it be one that is just theory, could it be one that is just practice, what would the combination look like. I managed to sneak in to the end of one of the conference days where ...