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The thing about learning to run research is, there are so many things you could work on - where do you feel the least confident about? Start there and gather data on what happened so you can learn from it.

https://uxdesign.cc/so-good-they-cant-ignore-you-how-craftsmanship-builds-great-careers-7be5aa5b9179

What does monotasking look like for students?

https://lectureinprogress.com/journal/corita-kent

mind vs body (how much of what we miss are the physical dimensions of learning and school?) manage vs comply (s. take on increased ownership - there are costs to freedom)

This call invites educators and students to share and celebrate their stories about using Design. We are interested in all design-related stories, be it successes, challenges, even the ones about how design has empowered individuals with the mindsets and skills for improving lives. This could be an ongoing initiative or a specific project in response to the COVID-19 virus that is designed to evoke the areas below: Empathy Energy & Enthusiasm Inspiration & Motivation Introspection & Reflection Joy & surprise Play Practice & Perseverance Self-awareness & Instinct Initiative & Leadership Expectations & Limitations https://www.designsingapore.org/modules/design-news/call-for-stories-on-the-transformation-of-education-through-design.html

海, 洋, 河, 流,水, 清, 澈, 湜, 潮, 浪, 溪, 泉 the way we move, the way we live, the way we are refreshed. i had forgotten the beauty of words. of parts, of ideograms. of the way meaning is put together. I had forgotten the beauty of the way in which words grow on us, and how they sit quietly in the midst of our becoming. 恩 = 因 ＋ 心 another thing I had forgotten -- sometimes it is alright to give the tea or tonic the time that it needs to steep.

https://deckofbrilliance.com https://toolbox.hyperisland.com https://www.mural.co/ebook

- setting up systems for success - self-awareness - not just to do the thing, but be conscious of why i do it - prototyping and building exposure to tech constraints and digital thinking

From the documentary "URBANIZED" by Gary Hustwit. Film still from a project to display electricity usage in Brighton. They turned the entire street into a graph, to make tangible the data of each household's electricity consumption (43:45 or so). Each household was also given a meter to use to check on electricity consumption across appliances in their households. A very low-tech approach to making something invisible, visible, and giving people a choice to respond. What if the whiteboard in a classroom was not just in front of the class, but under your feet?

PARTIAL is PARTICIPATORY. What we designed so that students could build and meet us halfway?

#slowtech

HMWs (How-Might-We’s) are the basic building block of Design Thinking provocations. How do we push ourselves to break beyond the walls of today’s reality, and engage with possibility? Found these prompts helpful in trimming the sails. Also, thinking out loud about what makes for a powerful HMW. - Is it a cunning constraint, that focuses attention and outcome? - Is it that it cuts to the bone/to the tooth of the insight? - Is it that it sets up an atmosphere of expectation and experimentation? - Is it… that it sparks joy?

This little adventurer certainly never felt like his bike was less than enough.

This week, learning more about my reflexes. Calling out a tendency to keep wanting more context, rather than to just try and put it out there. It's okay to formulate a point of view, or several, and then to test them out. It's okay to spend more time than seems necessary, but I hope I grow in my ability to crit myself, to sharpen and reflect and act with purpose. Focus creates its own freedoms. How can I harness a network effect for feedback? How will I better parcel out my goals, and value an extra pair of eyes? What am I always able to do for others, that I should learn to be able to do for myself?

A computer can substitute for a human in performing a particular task when two conditions are satisfied: • An Information Condition: All information necessary to carry out the task can be identified and acquired in a form that computers can process. • A Processing Condition: The information processing itself can be expressed in rules. The Information Condition is obvious, but we will see shortly that it can be hard to fulfill. The rules to which the Processing Condition refers can be either deductive or inductive.