The lessons of a PIM fail
I had an interesting–and terrible–experience this past week. My email/calendar/addressbook/to-do list system had a catastrophic crash. For basically a week it just stopped working. Or, almost worse, it worked sporadically and unreliably.
I was suddenly caught without my external memory field, without reliable communications, and without any way to reliably deal with the information that was coming into my life. I had come to depend on this technology, and then it failed.
A lot of things fell through the cracks: phone calls, doctor’s appointments, email exchanges.
[For those of you wondering, I did manage to recover the data. But if you sent me email last week and didn't hear back, it might be a good idea to resend it!]
The result, though, was an opportunity to ponder, first hand, one of the darker sides of technology…
A Virtual Hemodialyzer Design Project for First-Year Engineers
Chesler, N.C. Bagley, E., Breckenfeld, E., West, D. and Shaffer, D.W. (2010). A Virtual hemodialyzer design project for first-year engineers: An epistemic game approach. Proceedings of the ASME 2010 Summer Bioengineering Conference. Naples, FL, .
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/wp-content/uploads/EF-Games-for-SBC-FINAL.pdf
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The Epistemography of Journalism 335: Complexity in Developing Journalistic Expertise
Hatfield, David & Shaffer, DW (2010). The epistemography of journalism 335: Complexity in developing journalistic expertise. Paper to be presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), Chicago, Illinois.
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/wp-content/uploads/hatfield-ICLS2010-review.pdf
The Epistemography of Urban and Regional Planning
Bagley, Elizabeth & Shaffer, DW (2010). The epistemography or urban and regional planning 912: Appropriation in the face of resistance. Paper to be presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), Chicago, Illinois.
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/wp-content/uploads/Bagley-ICLS2010-submitted.doc
Mentor modeling: The internalization of modeled professional thinking in an epistemic game
Nash, Padraig & Shaffer, DW (2010). Mentor modeling: The internalization of modeled professional thinking in an epistemic game. Paper to be presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), Chicago, Illinois.
http://epistemicgames.org/eg/wp-content/uploads/ICLS2010_pnash_submission_final.pdf
