Thursday, July 16, 2009
Thursday, January 25, 2007
First Shot
It's late in the afternoon on a lazy January day. How I love having time for a change to do some creative long term planning of the classes that I'll teach starting in March. I'm wondering if getting some exposure to blogging and group publishing with shared files isn't something I should add to MHR 324.
I'm so impressed in my work with clients these days to see the facility with which team members use MSWord and Excel spreadsheets to do just about anything. These documents are flexible and creative, and I can't imagine quite how people out there in the real world are mastering these skills since I don't know or think that they're being taught in classrooms. A whole lot of time, I think, is being spent on weekends playing with tools and figuring out new uses for them.
"Bricolage" seems to be the thing these days. The term means "learning by playing with things". It refers to an active process of experimenting. It's so popular that hardly anybody buys books on how to get software to work. In fact what my generation took as the needs for documentation and manuals seems to have slipped right away. Partly that may reflect better design of products and processes by those creative minds that produce things for us to us. On the other hand, I bet that there has emerged with these tools new ways of active learning.
Care.. Steve
I'm so impressed in my work with clients these days to see the facility with which team members use MSWord and Excel spreadsheets to do just about anything. These documents are flexible and creative, and I can't imagine quite how people out there in the real world are mastering these skills since I don't know or think that they're being taught in classrooms. A whole lot of time, I think, is being spent on weekends playing with tools and figuring out new uses for them.
"Bricolage" seems to be the thing these days. The term means "learning by playing with things". It refers to an active process of experimenting. It's so popular that hardly anybody buys books on how to get software to work. In fact what my generation took as the needs for documentation and manuals seems to have slipped right away. Partly that may reflect better design of products and processes by those creative minds that produce things for us to us. On the other hand, I bet that there has emerged with these tools new ways of active learning.
Care.. Steve
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