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Arts-Based Research: Surprise and Self-Motivation
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Here's the teaser: "Arts-based research is beginning an
investigation without expectations and remaining open to
all possibilities. Now imagine asking a ninth-grade class
to deconstruct and recreate a Happy Meal. Now I wouldn't
want a ninth-grade class to ever be in the same room as a
happy meal. But I get the point; I remember at SXSW a
decade ago watching participants take café offerings
and turn them into nouveau cuisine. "Arts-based research, a
methodology of inquiry promoted by Professors Shaun McNiff
http://www.jkp.com/uk/art-based-research.html"
target="_blank and Elliot Eisner
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/arts-based-research/book234540"
target="_blank, asks the researcher to begin an
investigation, not with a predetermined sense of what is
useful, but by remaining open to all possibilities for
diving in." That's how I like to do my work, but it's far
from universally accepted.
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Why Isn’t Science Class More Like Learning to Play
Baseball?
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I like the argument. And I think it's more right than
wrong. "There is no particularly good reason why ballet or
basketball should be taught through apprenticeship while
science and math are not. As any scientist will tell you,
our profession is as much a matter of hard-won skill
as piano or tennis. In graduate school, where we really
teach science, we use the same methods as a chef or a
tailor."
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YANSS 086 – Change My View
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This podcast discusses an experiment whereby the history of
discussions was run through natural language analytics.
"When they did that, they discovered two things: what kind
of arguments are most likely to change people’s
minds, and what kinds of minds are most likely to be
changed."
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English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with
Wi-Fi kettle
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Voice-activated WiFi kettles are still in the realm of
future technology (and, I would think, about as safe as a
Galaxy Note 7) but this nightmare scenario still draws out
an important lesson for the internet of things (IoT) and
technology integration in general. But gthe best line in
the article has nothing to do with the kettle: "Well the
kettle is back online and responding to voice control, but
now we're eating dinner in dark while lights download a
firmware update." These are all the sort of things that
can't happen with household appliances. We tolerated it for
decades with software because, well, software, but when the
toaster won't toast we're going to begin fighting back.
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