Inside View

Developing criticality #edtechie22

I SPENT PART of the 2022 Irish Learning Technology Conference listening to colleagues share their research findings. One of the sessions I attended offered a quick view of Brendan Ryan's action research into the realm of teaching for critical thinking.

Half way through Brendan's presentation I realised I fit the stereotype of "newer is better" because I unabashedly seek out new tools and techniques.

Interaction Design Questions

I HAVE SET OF QUESTIONS my interaction design students have answered after reading The Design of Everyday Things.

1. Typeform as a survey tool.

Explain how Typeform excels as a survey mechanism. Offer a specific observation related to your use of Typeform.

2. Tools for automation.

What tools do you use to automate your life?

3. How you do things

Explain how normal people do things and how you do things. You can gain some inspiration from an audio recording published on Sharepoint at How People Do Things or on Spreaker.

4. Machine corrects you.

Describe the most memorable time when a machine said that you made a mistake.

• Ref audio: “Human Centered Design” on Spreaker
• Ref info: Table 1.1
• Suggestion: Offer an image of a machine telling you what to do. You can sketch it or if you use an image with attribution. 

5. Visitor Path Schematic.

Create a schematic of a visitor path using a selected page on InsideView.ie

6. Document a memorable Norman door.

7. What will the rear of an autonomous car look like in the year 2050?

Ref audio: “Four kinds of constraints” on Spreaker. 

8. Describe your surroundings when you are in the flow.

Ref audio: “The Seven Stages of Action and Three Levels of Processing” on Spreaker. 

9. Share your personal discoveries about natural mapping with controls in a car or on a stove.

Ref audio: “Natural Mapping” on Spreaker. 

10. Document one of your failures and its subsequent breakthrough.

Ref audio: “Blaming the wrong things” on Spreaker. 

11. Name the key affordances in your life.

Ref audio: “Fundamental Principles of Interaction” on Spreaker. 

Suggestion: Listen to the types of affordances suggested by Don Norman. 

12. Suggest a tactic to enhance the News directory of Clonmel Digital.

13. Document a significant aircraft accident finding related to cockpit displays or control inputs.

Ref audio: “Culture and Design” on Spreaker. 

14. Share a discovery arising from your Personal Knowledge Management system.

Time to run headlong into live streaming

FIVE YEARS AGO, I took a group of students onto a practice pitch for a 360 video live streaming session. I doubt any of them knew the significance of the event because the students were in a sports and business curriculum, not a creative broadcasting curriculum. Today, I'm looking at the working notes from that session, thinking it's time to restart live streaming sessions.

Trying to Stay in Mainstream Education

I HELPED DYLAN (11) explain to a room of teachers what he has to do in order to stay in mainstream education. Dylan has used speech and language services for more than six years as he tries to compensate for issues related to his vision and general development. Thanks to supports he has received from local schools and the South Tipperary Support Services, he has made major strides in both his educational and physical development.

I made an audio recording of Dylan's story.

Listen to "Staying in the Mainstream E100" on Spreaker.

Planning to Hang Work inside Kunst Exhibiton

I WORK WITH a group of 43 university students who are finishing their fourth year in BSc Honours degrees. Some of their work will hang in a 3D virtual exhibition called "Piece and Projects".

The online project is a work in progress held in the Kunst Matrix that should be ready for public viewing before the end of June 2022.

Targeting with Tags

WE ARE FIVE DAYS from welcoming a small group of educators to the annual ICT in Education Conference. I'm learning important concepts in the background as we plan this in-person event. Done right, proper metrics strengthen trust, build budget, and increase business impact for marketing teams. 

But according to Forrester, 77% ofglobal B2B decision-makers say that using data and analytics to guide decisions is one of their top weaknesses. 

An Adobe fact sheet, Metrics That Make a Big Difference, covers helpful tips for measuring and proving the value of marketing content and campaigns. A few tips to get you started: 

● Tip #l : Don't fixate on costs. 
● Tip #2: Define your metrics and how 
you'll measure them upfront. 
●Tip #3: Choose a marketing attribution 
medal.

So the first thing I will do today is generate tags for an email campaign.

Trying to post from Writer Plus

I have an Android phone that doesn't seem to have a simple app for writing. I can use Bear Writer on iOS handsets and Scrivener on the iPad Pro but I can't locate an Android app that has the same simple functionality. I may need to try Day One journaling again.

Trying to reset fasting as a habit

SUMMER WEATHER is trying to warm up Ireland and with those warmer temperatures I'm starting to notice animals acting more actively as they search our back garden for food. Perhaps some of these animals have come out of hibernation. I wonder if anything about their lower activity level could offer clues about how I might benefit from fasting.