PIDT: Schwen 2

• Implications for the field
  
  • Ethography
  • Traditional ISD is arrogant determining on envionment
  • There are strengths and weaknesses
  • The model was so good that it kept us from developing other tools
  • Activity systems focuses on descriptive nature in US
  • Co-design with a group is important
  • What is it that teachers like to do?
  • Difference between experts and facilitators
  • Collaborative model for diagnosis  and solution building
  • This field has only recently gotten good enough to do harm.
  • Forms as used in architechture
  • Learning forms
  • Value lies in the ability to apply information not create information
  • What a researcher should be to what a designer should be
  • What environments should we consider?
    
    • K-12
    • Business
    • Higher education
  • Metaphors
    
    • Collaborative efforts   
• Implications for departments
• Moving from prescriptive to interventions - Beyond descriptive
• Group decision making
• Technology
• Funding
  
  • There is a great interest in understanding the culture of work and learning
  • NSF Qualitative research standards funding
  • Rigor is achievable