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Design: FightCard Factual Knowledge Practice System

The following write-up describes a flashcard-like system designed for individualized user practice of factual knowledge sets. FightCard / Flashfight FightCard / Flashfight is a mobile, online factual knowledge study system that allows users to build practice card sets based on their own goals and information needs, and to exchange cards and sets with other users [...]
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Charles Leadbeater’s TED Talk on Innovation

From 2008, Charles Leadbeaters introduces the rise of the “pro-am” and creative design and innovation driven by users and communities: Questions Is this “open” model of design, development and innovation feasible in the real world? What is required? (community, open access, critical mass, motivation) How do we cultivate a culture of contribution and creation? How [...]
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IPT 564 Notes 07-27-2010

Notes 07-27-2010 Business Tyler built a spreadsheet that allows rubric items, score, and points David cancelled reverse engineering Analysis Gibbons: If design is goal oriented choices made/process under constraints, analysis is understanding those constraints Analysis is an investment; it pays dividends later Cost of change increases as time goes on (JMS: analogous to a toppling [...]
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IPT 564 Notes 07-15-2010

Learner certitude/confidence (motivation) Capacity of decisions across layers (deisgn) Matching feedback types to situation 1. Progress feedback, goal orientation (feedback) 2. Take advantage of dual-coding when relevant (cognition) 3. Manage cognitive overload, avoid split attention (cognition) 4. Chunking 7+/-2 (cognition) 5. Analysis drives design choices; alignment (design) 6. Usability of design (design); Contiguity effect 7. [...]
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IPT 564 Notes 07-13-2010

Lessig presentation – possible rule-breaking in multimedia Delivery media Presentation modes sensory modality Generative theory select (relevant info), organize, integrate Long history of media comparison studies. To pinpoint effectiveness as a quality of a broad delivery media category is inaccurate (e.g. online vs traditional; pen vs paper). (JS: We can, I think, identify traits of [...]
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IPT 564 Readings on Multimedia and Time on Task

This is a short post on this week’s readings. Mayer, Richard. (1997). Multimedia learning: Are we asking the right questions? Educational Psychologist 31(1), 1-19. Today we may take multimedia learning for granted, as the advent of more powerful hardware and software has facilitated the production of multimedia by non-programmers, and the Web has made available [...]
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IPT 564 Readings on Spacing Effect

Notes on assigned readings on spacing effect: Dempster, The Spacing Effect and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system Dempster’s article addresses possible issues that may have restricted or inhibited the classroom application of research on the spacing effect. The Leitner System describes a method of spaced repetition in flashcard practice that has been adopted by many flashcard software. In it’s [...]
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IPT 564 Readings on Memory and Forgetting

I had to catch up and post something on this week’s readings on memory and forgetting, though I had read all or part of the following previously. Ebbinghaus (1885) Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology Ebbinghaus’s book-length treatment of the subject is surely included here because it is a groundbreaking work, a classic often referred [...]
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IPT 564 Readings on Feedback

This week’s readings on feedback take me back to the first day of class wherein we revisited Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem. One of the implied findings of Bloom is that feedback–both the planned iterative, formative feedback in the mastery learning model and the expectedly less formalized but more spontaneous and responsive feedback suggested by the [...]
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IPT 564 Readings on ADDIE

The first week’s readings were on ADDIE, the instructional design model that is either loved or hated. ADDIE, of course, stands for Analyze Design Develop Implement and Evaluate, and originated with military instructional systems design. The ISD applications of ADDIE were typically broader than instructional design’s more specific uses in the design of specific learning [...]
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