Animotronic Cat Ears, darr1cjsro , and comment by Diana Laurillard
The web is wonderful as a way to discover new things, the sort of jumble you used to find in bookshops. I just read the news that Animotronic Cat Ears are now available in the USA.
"Laurillard seems to be writing for a fairly stable situation" - Yes, but the stable situation is continual technology innovation. That's why teachers must be able to act like design scientists, always exchanging ideas, always improving what they do, and given the time and responsibility to do so.
Not sure when these will turn up in Devon UK. They respond to your mood as frioends will get to know. darr1cjsro asks the question, would you wear them in public?
Anyway, the reason I found them was that Diana Laurillard left a comment on another post which I think was intended for my blog. I wrote about her new book -Teaching As A Design Science - Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology.
dianalaurillard quoted from my post-:
"What strikes me is that "design science" is an approach that can be related to by people working in quality and other forms of applied learning. As memory serves earlier writing on technology enhanced learning seemed to be working on academic theory from which design would follow. There could still be some better theory to come, but the science is in the method to loop through practice."
and responded-
Yes, good point - a design science should test and feed back into theory development as well.
So I think this is worth repeating because it opens up more space for communication with theory. See earlier posts in this Posterous will789gb blog for background on how quality assurance is regarded. The interest around "design science" could fit with how quality systems operate. So I am hoping to interest people from quality discussions such as the MoSO group on LinkedIn. Learning has always been part of quality.
There was another comment on the actual post-
"Laurillard seems to be writing for a fairly stable situation" - Yes, but the stable situation is continual technology innovation. That's why teachers must be able to act like design scientists, always exchanging ideas, always improving what they do, and given the time and responsibility to do so.
This gets into areas like system review and may even bring back quality circles to the UK. In some places they never went away.