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Yin Wah Kreher

Sketching: the Visual Thinking Power Tool · An A List Apart Article - 1 views

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sketching thinking

shared by Yin Wah Kreher on 24 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 24 Oct 14
     
    "When I suggest sketching as a visual thinking tool, I often I hear "I'm not an artist" or "I can't draw." While I understand the hesitation, I'm here to tell you that the artistic quality of your sketches is not the point. The real goal of sketching is functional. It's about generating ideas, solving problems, and communicating ideas more effectively with others. "
Yin Wah Kreher

Understanding by Design 101 | Pedagogy Corner - 1 views

rampages.us/...understanding-by-design-101

VCU blogcomments ubd

shared by Yin Wah Kreher on 19 Dec 14 - Cached
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 19 Dec 14
     
    FI staff Christopher J started a blog as he completes UBD online course. Plan to follow his thoughts on this as I'm a fan of UBD and TFU etc.
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 19 Dec 14
     
    Christopher J's blog on UBD and reflections on teaching
sanamuah

Using Voyant for Text Analysis | Digital History Methods - 1 views

ricedh.github.io/02-voyant.html

3rdspace digital+humanities

shared by sanamuah on 27 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • This page walks through the process of using Voyant for digital text mining. Find here a link to our entire corpus of runaway ads uploaded into a Voyant skin.
  • sanamuah on 27 Feb 15
     
    Digital text-mining tools can help researchers understand document collections that are prohibitively large for a close-reading. Our collection of runaway slave advertisements from Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi totals over 2,500 individual ads! Not only would it be extremely time consuming to read this entire collection, the consistently short, boilerplate format of runaway ads can make it difficult to really distinguish between them. The ads from Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi start to all look practically indistinguishable, making it difficult for close-reading alone to recognize pattern breaks between the states, without the assistance of computational data. This is where Voyant comes in. We hoped that the "distant-reading" capabilities of Voyant would be able to pick up on larger word usage trends that are not immediately apparent when reading with the human eye.
Joyce Kincannon

Why Apple is Good at Design | DMLcentral - 0 views

dmlcentral.net/...why-apple-good-design

design distributed cognition technology tools

shared by Joyce Kincannon on 17 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Joyce Kincannon on 17 Mar 15
     
    "Distributed cognition is a theory of mind that argues that cognition does not occur exclusively in individual brains but is distributed across an environment - an interlocking system consisting of tools, persons, and specific knowledge and tasks. One of the insights of this approach was to recognize that the deep interconnections of these cognitive ecologies have a profound impact on how people use and understand tools. As Edwin Hutchins puts it, a tool that is "easy to use" is simply a tool that fits into a particular cognitive ecology."
Tom Woodward

Information is Beautiful Awards - 1 views

www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/...oisoning-challenge-the-winners

information awards dataviz food poisoning

shared by Tom Woodward on 18 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 18 Mar 15
     
    Interesting to see different approaches to the same data and how people build compelling and understandable data visualizations.
Tom Woodward

Cliff Atkinson: Storyboarding the Psyche | Quantified SelfQuantified Self - 1 views

quantifiedself.com/...-atkinson-storyboarding-psyche

qs quantifiedself data motivation psychology dataviz

shared by Tom Woodward on 10 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 10 Nov 14
     
    "Cliff began this project because he was noticed that there were "recurring patterns of procrastination and motivation" going on in his life. He began trying to understand them by turning to the large body of literature on human psychology. Then he asked himself, "Would it be possible to use some quantitative methods to track what was happening." Using what he'd learned in his research and his experiences he decided to track his body, emotions, and mind. "
Tom Woodward

Off the 3-D Printer, Practice Parts for the Surgeon - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ice-parts-for-the-surgeon.html

medical weekly 3d printing

shared by Tom Woodward on 31 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 31 Jan 15
     
    "Before he operated on Violet, Dr. Meara wanted a more precise understanding of her bone structure than he could get from an image on a screen. So he asked his colleague Dr. Peter Weinstock to print him a three-dimensional model of Violet's skull, based on magnetic resonance imaging pictures."
William

New Statesman | We still don't really know how bicycles work - 3 views

www.newstatesman.com/...-really-know-how-bicycles-work

learning physics gyroscopic bicycles

shared by William "Bud" Deihl on 28 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • William "Bud" Deihl on 28 Oct 14
     
    Interesting overview of the physics of a bicycle, discussion about history, research and conclusion that we really don't understand how a bicycle works.
Yin Wah Kreher

What Should Speakers Do With Their Hands? - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...d-speakers-do-with-their-hands

visible thinking

shared by Yin Wah Kreher on 03 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 03 Apr 15
     
    Understand first the purpose of gesture. It's more important than you might think. Intents, ideas, emotions, desires, decisions, wants, urges - they all originate within our unconscious minds. Once the unconscious mind has cooked them up, the next thing that happens is that you begin to act on them. Only after you begin to move does your conscious mind kick into gear and become aware of what's going on.

    You need gesture, in fact, in order to know what you're thinking. Literally. Stifle your gestures and limit your thinking - your conscious awareness of what's going on in the depths of your mind.
Yin Wah Kreher

You're 100% Wrong About Math Scores - 0 views

www.newsweek.com/...-about-math-scores-317526.html

writing visible thinking

shared by Yin Wah Kreher on 03 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 03 Apr 15
     
    "People are caught up in a focus on STEM"-science, technology, engineering and math-"but the piece they don't understand is that all of those fields rely on clear, good writing, and we're not getting that," says Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, executive director of the National Writing Project, a nonprofit think tank at the University of California, Berkeley.

    So here's an idea for a fresh meme: #GoodWritingIsSexy.
Yin Wah Kreher

The Helpful Art Teacher: Fun with one point perspective boxes and other geometric forms - 0 views

thehelpfulartteacher.blogspot.com/...e-point-perspective-boxes.html

art perspective

shared by Yin Wah Kreher on 08 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Yin Wah Kreher on 08 Apr 15
     
    Learning how to draw means learning to see. A good art lesson teaches us not only to create but to look at, think about and understand our world through art.
Tom Woodward

Seeking Genius in Negative Space - 7 Days of Genius - Medium - 1 views

medium.com/...in-negative-space-4e7c755f641f

seeking space philosophy thoughtvectors weekly

shared by Tom Woodward on 23 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 23 Mar 15
     
    "Be deeply curious about the world around you. Become aware of your thoughts and learn to think about thinking. Practicing metacognition will help develop a sense for the tricks your mind plays, and how to overcome them. With this awareness, learn to overcome automatic processing. When confronted with something new or unfamiliar, withhold judgment; if you see something you don't understand in the negative space, go with it and see where it leads. Remember that impossible geometry exists, and your mind is constantly trying to force you to see things that you already know how to see. It's learning to see the unseen that makes this practice valuable! Be aware of the limitations of the labels that have been applied to the world. Keep in mind how small the grid of words is compared to the wordless plane. Opportunity exists where words don't exist, yet. Learn to sit with Keats in uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts without grasping for conventional explanations. Allow time to visit the fantastic and the unconventional, and become aware of the moments when you're avoiding staying in these contexts. Meditation can be essential here."
Enoch Hale

Understanding Project-Based Learning in the Online Classroom - 1 views

www.facultyfocus.com/...arning-in-the-online-classroom

higher education online resources

shared by Enoch Hale on 09 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • sanamuah on 09 Feb 16
     
    "In reality, the main value of project-based learning is that it teaches students to ask the right questions. Traditional assignments predefine the information that the students will use. Project-based learning puts students into the position of having to determine what information they need by asking the right questions."
  • Enoch Hale on 19 Feb 16
     
    PBL and Online Learning
Tom Woodward

What are Visual Thinking Strategies? - My VoiceThread - Blog and Webinars - 0 views

blog.voicethread.com/...are-visual-thinking-strategies

voicethread visual thinking vts nursing medicine

shared by Tom Woodward on 06 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 06 Jul 15
     
    "Dr. Moorman conducted a study focused on what meaning VTS had for students exploring how they used VTS in patient care.  Guided by a series of 3 questions, a facilitator chose a work of art and asked students the following questions: 'What is going on in this painting?' 'What are you seeing that makes you say that?' (requiring students to give visual evidence), and 'What more can you find?' (requiring them to look again and scaffold off of others' comments).  Students found their observational skills improved and that they were more open to hearing other's opinions.  They found that they were more likely to give detail to back up observations in their clinical situations and listen to others during report. They also found they used the same line of questioning that the facilitator used when they were seeking more information during clinical rotations during patient care.    "
  • cawatts on 07 Jul 15
     
    We had a faculty member who took our students to the VMFA every year for this exercise. The students loved it. I didn't understand its point at the time, but this makes a great deal of sense.
Tom Woodward

How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes « James Somers (jsomers.net) - 6 views

features.jsomers.net/reverse-engineered-google-docs

writing googledoc google playback googledocs editing english tool

shared by Tom Woodward on 05 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 05 Jul 15
     
    "What's neat about this is that I didn't have to use any special software while I was writing to make this "video" possible. I was working in plain old vanilla Google Docs. And to show you this one paragraph I liked, I didn't have to present you with the whole document (all 39,154 revisions of it) - I could extract bits and pieces that I thought were interesting, and interleave them in a blog post. Imagine what a high school English teacher could do with that. Imagine what you could do with that if instead of a minor effort by ol' Somers here you had, say, a piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (I've always wanted to watch how TNC writes. If he's ever used Google Docs, it's now possible.)"
  • anonymous on 06 Jul 15
     
    I love this: "I worry that most people aren't as good writers as they should be. One thing is that they just don't write enough. Another is that they don't realize it's supposed to be hard; they think that good writers are talented, when the truth is that good writers get good the way good programmers get good, the way good anythings get good: by running into the spike. Maybe folks would understand that better if they had vivid evidence that a good writer actually spends most of his time fighting himself."
Steve Ashby

Earliest known piece of polyphonic music discovered | University of Cambridge - 1 views

www.cam.ac.uk/...of-polyphonic-music-discovered

music online listening

shared by Steve Ashby on 10 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Typically, polyphonic music is seen as having developed from a set of fixed rules and almost mechanical practice. This changes how we understand that development precisely because whoever wrote it was breaking those rules.
Enoch Hale

New effort aims to standardize faculty-driven review of student work | InsideHigherEd - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...lty-driven-review-student-work

resources higher education assessment

shared by Enoch Hale on 25 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Campbell also said that the project will be much more significant if it ultimately shows whether students' skills improve over time. "If you don't have some kind of comparison of change, showing what they could do when they came in and when they left," she said, "it may do exactly what the rankings do: reinforce the reality that great students produce great work, and great institutions have great students."
  • Arum said the AAC&U/SHEEO approach has the potential to be one of "multiple indicators" that higher education institutions and policy makers eventually embrace to understand student learning. "No one measure is going to be sufficient to capture student learning performance outcomes," he said. "Responsible parties know there's a place for multiple measures, multiple approaches." Campbell, of Teachers College, agrees that "because [student learning] is such a complicated issue, any one method is going to have complications and potential limitations"
  • The Results The faculty participants scored the thousands of samples of work (which all came from students who had completed at least 75 percent of their course work) in three key learning outcome areas: critical thinking, written communication and quantitative literacy. Like several other recent studies of student learning, including Academically Adrift, the results are not particularly heartening. A few examples: Fewer than a third of student assignments from four-year institutions earned a score of three or four on the four-point rubric for the critical thinking skill of "using evidence to investigate a point of view or reach a conclusion." Nearly four in 10 work samples from four-year colleges scored a zero or one on how well students "analyzed the influence of context and assumptions" to draw conclusions. While nearly half of student work from two-year colleges earned a three or four on "content development" in written communication, only about a third scored that high on their use of sources and evidence. Fewer than half of the work from four-year colleges and a third of student work from two-year colleges scored a three or four on making judgments and drawing "appropriate conclusions based on quantitative analysis of data."
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  • After her training in using the VALUE rubrics, Mullaney gathered nine faculty members on her campus to be the core of the two-year college's project group. They were previously unfamiliar with the rubrics, she says, but together they "went through them with a fine-toothed comb" and agreed "that these rubrics do represent an accurate way to assess these skills." The professors brought in their own (and their colleagues') assignments to see how well (or poorly) they aligned with the rubrics, Mullaney said. "Sometimes their assignments were missing things, but they could easily add them in and make them better." The last step of the process at the institutional level, she said, was gathering a representative sample of student work, so that it came from all of CCRI's four campuses and 18 different disciplines, and mirrored the gender, racial and ethnic demographics and age of the community college's student body. Similar efforts went on at the other 60-odd campuses.
  • "I might have thought so before, but through this process our faculty has really connected with the idea that this is about student learning," she said. "When they see areas of weakness, I think they'll say, 'Wow, OK, how can we address this? What kinds of teaching strategies can we use?'"
  • Enoch Hale on 25 Sep 15
     
    Assessment: What are students really learning?
Joyce Kincannon

Learn from the experience of others - 1 views

www.presspublications.com/...-from-the-experience-of-others

design learning experience

shared by Joyce Kincannon on 23 Jun 15 - No Cached
  • Joyce Kincannon on 23 Jun 15
     
    "There are a variety of ways to learn from someone else's experience.  Start by reading and researching.  Libraries and the internet are great sources for exploration.  When using the internet, look for recognized and reliable sources.  There's lots of erroneous information on the web, so be discriminating. Attend classes.  You have many choices for live or online classes on virtually any subject that interests you.  If you're so inclined, you can work full or part time on a degree.  Adding academic credentials to your resume is always beneficial. Find a mentor who is an expert in the area you are interested in.  Offer to volunteer, apprentice, or intern.  Working with an authority in a particular field is a great way to acquire lots of experience quickly. Observe people who are already where you want to be.  You don't have to know them personally.  You can read about them, read books and articles they write, or follow media accounts of their exploits.  Join associations or professional groups in your area of interest.  They are an excellent opportunity to meet and connect with experienced people.  You will have many opportunities to ask questions and attend a variety of educational forums."
  • Jody Symula on 24 Jun 15
     
    I found myself almost getting on board this article until I got to the end: "Don't waste time learning from your own experiences. Acquire an edge by learning from what others have already been through. Whatever your goals may be, there are those who have a lot to teach you because they have already traveled your path." I believe there is great benefit to being reflective on one's own actions and experiences. At the end of the day, we certainly can learn and make connections through other's experiences, but frankly we go to bed, and wake up, as ourselves every day. The more we understand and know ourselves the better we can be accurate guides.
Tom Woodward

USA Population map - 1 views

www.slate.com/...t_how_many_flyover_states.html

population mapping dataviz map understanding USA

shared by Tom Woodward on 18 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Tom Woodward on 18 Oct 14
     
    Use our interactive map to figure out how many flyover states it takes to equal one New York City.
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