Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 13, 2009, 07:48 AM

I've been thinking about the ways we learn when we make things and how differerent that experience is from learning in order to answer exam questions (especially multiple choice) about things, subjects, or ideas that other people have made.   What is most different is that, when you make something you learn about failure and from failure.   When you "get the answer wrong," you fail.   Therein lies all the difference.

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Oct 27, 2009, 08:48 AM

If the twentieth-century paradigm for the brain is the hardwired CPU, I would argue that the new paradigm for the twenty-first century brain is the iPod or iPhone, with 75,000 possible Apps (and counting) available for downloading, some created by developers, others by users, all in constant need of updates and customising. There's an App for just about everything in the twenty-first century brain because a changing world needs a brain that is not a product but an interactive processor.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 29, 2008, 07:26 PM
t has been an amazing hundred days: from closing the competition to selecting the first cohort of seventeen winners of the HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition. While we are finalizing the last details of the Competition, we will offer a few blog postings about the process, the field, what we have learned, and what we will be looking for in future competitions.