Area |
Date |
Topic |
Overview |
8/29/00 |
Course
overview, social impacts of IT. |
| 8/31/00 |
Ubiquitous
and calm computing, information appliances. |
Learning and Development: Foundations of Behavior |
9/5/00 |
Constructivism
and Piaget. |
| 9/7/00 |
Constructionism,
LOGO and Papert. |
| 9/12/00 |
Learning
as a social process: Vygotsky. |
| 9/14/00 |
Vygotsky:
Thinking and Speech. |
| 9/19/00 |
Bakhtin
and the role of language in learning. |
Some Cognitive Science |
9/21/00 |
Speech
Act Theory. |
| 9/26/00 |
Cognition
as process: GOMS and EPIC. |
| 9/28/00 |
Representations
and things that make us smart. |
| 10/3/00 |
Meaning
and Metaphor. |
| 10/5/00 |
Post-structuralism,
LSA and automatic essay graders. |
Personality, Emotion, Persuasion... |
10/10/00 |
Emotion
and Affect. |
| 10/12/00 |
Persuasion
and Trust. |
| 10/17/00 |
Personality
theories: Big-5 and Myers-Briggs. |
| 10/19/00 |
Non-verbal
communication. |
| Groups,
Practice, Activity Theory. |
10/24/00 |
Media
richness. |
| 10/26/00 |
Group
Cooperation. |
| 10/31/00 |
Practice
and peripheral participation. |
| 11/2/00 |
Activity
Theory overview. |
| 11/7/00 |
Context,
Immutable Mobiles, Boundary objects. |
| Social
Networks
|
11/9/00 |
Social
network theory: Centrality and prestige. |
| 11/14/00 |
Social
network theory: Role and position. |
| 11/16/00 |
Diffusion
of information in social networks. |
| Design
and Knowledge Creation |
11/21/00 |
Ethnography,
Ethnomethodology and Participatory Design. |
| 11/28/00 |
Contextual
Design. |
| 11/30/00 |
Appropriation
& Evolutionary Design. |
| 12/5/00 |
Knowledge Creation. |
| 12/7/00 |
Quick
Reference Card |
|
12/11/00 |
Project presentations in
405 Soda, from 10am-4pm. |