The ignorant art museum: beyond meaning-making

Mobility in Learning: Meaning Making across Classroom and Museum Settings

In this paper I present the design rationale for a work-in-progress mobile learning project titled Gidder: Groups in Digital Dialogue. The design challenge is to support upper secondary school students as they collaboratively interpret artworks across classroom and museum settings using a combination of wiki and mobile phone technologies.

Beyond Requirements: Software Making as Art

N o one paying attention to software development recently could miss the raging methodology war. On one side you find formalists, who remain fond of the word " process, " emphasize detailed planning to produce quality products, and aspire to a level of repeatability that evokes manufacturing imagery. On the other side you find agilists, who value " individuals and interactions over processes an...

dEwEy lEcturE: Making MEaning togEthEr BEyond thEory and PracticE

Educators frequently fret over how to bridge the gap between theory and practice. In an important sense, it is a false problem. Theory is simply the thoughtful, reflective phase of good practice. We will approach Dewey’s philosophy as one of continuous creation and re-creation or even more precisely, social co-creation, that requires making meaning, knowledge, and value together. We will look a...

From the museum: the art of thinking.

From the outset, our challenge is to elevate your ‘‘thinking about thinking’’ and to creatively engage with new thought as it both defined and was derivative of the human mind during key periods of European artistic and scientific development commencing with Renaissance awakenings, through the passions of the Romantic age, Enlightenment’s revelations and the powers of Symbolism, culminating in ...

Museum architecture: beyond the 'temple' and... beyond; Museum; Vol.:XLI, 4; 1989