Sat.Nov 08, 2008 - Fri.Nov 14, 2008

Clark Quinn

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Medina keynote on Brain Rules at DevLearn 08

Clark Quinn

John Medina gave the closing keynote at DevLearn, based upon his book Brain Rules. He covered two of his 12 rules, on memory, and on exercise. He spoke fast, was enthusiastic, funny, and knowledgeable. He talked about myths of learning, and said that he didn’t think there was a lot neuroscience had to say to learning design (thankfully, cf Willingham ).

Brain 100
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DevLearn 08 Keynote: Tim O’Reilly

Clark Quinn

Tim O’Reilly, Web 2.0 guru , talked to us about what web 2.0 is and led us to his implications for what we do. He started off talking about tracking the ‘alpha geek’ These are the folks who manage to thrive and innovate despite us, rather than because of us. He’s essentially built O’Reilly on watching what these folks do, analyzing the underlying patterns, and figuring out what’s key.

DevLearn 100
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User-Centered System Design

Clark Quinn

Back when I did my PhD, I was fortunate to be in Don Norman’s group when they were developing some of the primary design principles about designing for how people really think (&# cognitive engineering&# ). It focused on designing for the way people work (my twist was designing for how people learn). I recently ranted about animated gifs, and I’ve got a similar catalyst here.

System 100