Fall 2011 STSH 4610 Mon Thur 9-11:50 SAGE rm 2211 (studio)
Instructor: Dr. Ron Eglash
Special thanks to students and teachers at our field site, the Ark Community Charter School
"if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time" -- Art Blakey
"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again" -- Karl Popper
Lectures
Developing an STS perspective on design
Handout,"Qualitative Social Science Methods in Design"
What is ethnography? (Jen Barton)
Ron's
Tips for Good Design Process
The myth of biological determinism: a view from human evolution (for more see S.J. Gould, Mismeasure of Man, New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1981)
Online readings
General |
Cultural Politics of Electronic Media |
Culturally Situated
Design Tools Intelligence in seven steps (Howard Gardner) |
Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/For Cyberspace"
Social dimensions of educational toy design Stockholm International Toy Research Center Ethnic Identity in Adolescents and Adults (Jean S. Phinney) Video Game Characters and the Socialization of Gender |
Assignments
| Assignment 1 | Assignment 2 | Assignment 3 | Assignment 4 | Assignment 5 | Assignment 6 | Assignment 7 | Assignment 8 | Assignment 9 | Assignment 10 |
| Assignment 11 | Assignment 12 | Assignment 13 |
Final websites: login at http://pdi-studio5.wp.rpi.edu/wp-admin/ using your rcsid and password. Site is at http://pdi-studio5.wp.rpi.edu/
Questions on readings
| Questions on Fischer | Questions on Fordham | Questions on Druin | Questions on Bamberger | Questions on Gardner | Questions on Nemirovsky | Questions on Brunner | Questions on Ito |
Resources
Connecting flash to Arduino Flash to Arduino examples How to make a rhythm game in flash
Mobile Studio HTML and CSS tutorials
Electronic Resources Online (David Johnson)
Laptop Oscilloscope (Konstantin Zeldovich, Moscow State University)
Tutorial on the 555 chip (Tony van Roon) Resister code calculator
Other links
NY State Assessment Exams for K-12 students
NY State Core Curriculum / Resource Guides
Culturally Situated Design Tools
Student webpages from PDI-5 2007