One of the other things to come out in my visit to Malcolm’s class is an awareness of a certain difference in styles between School of Information, HCI/user-centered-design project presentations and architecture project presentations. Basically, teams of SI students or mostly-SI students presented projects as a bit of a “pitch” — this is why our [...]
Libby Hemphill and I are hosting a roundtable discussion at the 2008 iConference, hosted by UCLA, at the end of February. Professional students, whether undergraduates or masters’ students, represent a significant portion of the iSchool community. How do iSchools effectively educate those students while continuing to develop successful research programs? This roundtable discussion will focus [...]
Tagged conference, education, highered, iconference, ischools, practice, researchI’ve previously written a bit on the balance of research vs practice in professional programs, and so I was quite pleased to see this post by Dori Tunstall tonight: Design education focuses too much on “practice” and not enough on “research.” What I mean by that controversial statement is that is that design education does [...]
Tagged education, researchClifford Geertz passed away last weekend. I’d written to a professor just a few days before that reading Interpretation of Cultures was one of those experiences that significantly shook up how I think about the world. This was really true of the entire Culture, Knowledge, and Creativity course (my first academic exposure to anthropology), but [...]
Tagged educationThe i-Conference was two weeks ago (time seems to be going very quickly now). It was a really good experience, and I feel that I left with a much better understanding of the history of information schools and some of the challenges they (we?) face. Much of the conference was navel gazing through the lenses [...]
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