John Y Baek | The Blogspot Portfolio

The 2020 Vision Conference website is intended to provide basic information about the conference, provide access to documents generated, and host forum discussions as follow-up events. The website provides access to the participant names and even a Twitter Hash, as an experiment in pulling in social media comments back to the website.

We've been operating under the wrong mental model, maybe even the wrong Kuhnian paradigm. We know this model doesn't work, yet we continue to argue over its strengths and weaknesses (which it has both) for decades without moving forward. The wrong mental model is thinking about "education" as medicine or as a medical treatment. I offer a better mental model, thinking about education as nutrition , a healthy diet through one's life combined with other healthy activities which leads to the outcome of wellness and health. Medicine doesn't test whether one banana had a positive, everlasting effect on our health. Yet we do test whether one tv show or one science cafe had this same kind of effect.

Social Scientists seek to understand human behavior, the difficulty of our work is in attributing the observed behavior to nature or nurture. (Perhaps an aside: I believe that it is in our nature to nurture. Therefore it's a false dichotomy if taken too literally particularly in the social sciences.) To me the difference resides in our multiple brain systems, the autonomic (includes physiological) and the cognitive and the motor, of which govern human behavior sometimes at odds with each other.

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Design Research on a Diet: A Methodological Framework Called Design Assessment This paper continues a dialogue about the purposes and processes of design research as called for by Dede (2004) among others (Kelly, 2004; O’Donnell, 2004). He seeks discussion amongst design researchers in order to come to an accepted set of standards or values that describe what impact we want our research to have on improvements in education. Continuing this dialogue at AERA’s Design and Technology SIG, we, the authors, hope to include other interested parties that share similar concerns thereby expanding the diversity of voices in the discussion. Evaluators of educational designs, instructional designers, learning scientists, or design thinking educators all face similar challenges when attempting to support claims of learning improvements based on innovative design interventions.

As part of my duties as E-Learning Specialist at George Mason, I redesigned and developed the Instructional Technology department website. Information and Enterprise Architecture (a) One example of information architecture is evidenced by right side main menus. These are designed to flex vertically in order to accommodate future changes. (b) One complement I received about the information architecture came when a professor was able to help someone navigate the website over the phone. The clarity comes in the logical relationships in the hierarchy of links. (c) The navigation deeper into the web site is also informed by blog design. Paragraphs introduced web pages further in by the consistent use of the linked phrase "Learn More...". (d) An example of the enterprise architecture is not visually evident, but comes in the form of the MODx content management system that publishes the web site. The adoption of MODx by the College of Education and Human Development's technology...

My curriculum vitae as of August 3, 2007.