1   Labor Day no class

8   Simon chapter 1 and 2:

• ch 1: Understanding the Natural and the Artificial Worlds
• ch 2: Economics Rationality
• Practical Activity: Design your own home page (in class)
• Videotape: "Knowledge Navigator"
• Assignment 1 due
  
  

15   Simon chapter 3 and 4:

• ch 3: The Psychology of Thinking: Embedding Artifice in Nature
• ch 4: Remembering and Learning: Memory as Environment for Thought
• Practical Activity: Discuss home pages (in class)
• Assignment 2 due
  
  

22   Simon chapter 5 and 6:

• ch 5: The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial
• ch 6: Social Planning: Designing the Evolving Artifact
• Assignment 3 due
  
  

29   Simon chapter 7 and 8:

• ch 7: Alternative Views of Complexity;
• ch 8: The Architecture of Complexity: Hierarchic Systems
• Practical Activity: teams formation based on shared interests -- research projects (in class)
• Assignment 4 due

OCTOBER

6   Design: a central organizing concept

• Videotape: "Computers in Context"
• Readings: G. Fischer, Domain-Oriented Design Environments, in Automated Software Engineering, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, pp. 177-203
  
  

13   Learning: a central organizing concept

Readings:

• Tim Koschmann "Paradigm Shifts and Instructional Technology"
• Cognitive Science Panel: "Learning on Demand", 1993
• CHI'98 Panel Proposal: "Elixir or Snake Oil: Revisiting the Debate over Computers in Education", 1998
  
  

20   Special Session: The Productivity Paradox - A Discussion Forum between the Students of the Class forming two groups

group₁ of students: Computers have increased productivity, changed working, learning and collaboration

group ₂ of students: Computers have not increased productivity, changed working, learning and collaboration

Background Readings:

• Todd Oppenheimer: "The Computer Delusion", Atlantic Monthly, July 1997
• Background Information:
• Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson: "The Road Ahead", Penguin, 1996
• Nicholas Negroponte, Marty Asher (Editor): "Being Digital", Vintage Books, 1996
• Tom Landauer : "The Trouble with Computers", MIT Press, 1995
  
  

27   Creating Shared Understanding

Presentation/Activity: The Intersim Project

Guest: Hal Eden

Reading:

• Arias, Eden, Fischer "Enhancing Communication, Facilitating Shared Understanding and Creating Better Artifacts," DIS '97.

Background Information:

• C. P. Snow : "The Two Cultures", Cambridge Univ Press, 1993

NOVEMBER

3   Learning on Demand, Simulation, and Critiquing

• Presentation/Activity: Interactive Learning Environments, Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Domain-Oriented Design Environments
• Guest Presentation: Alex Repenning
• Readings: Fischer, G., Nakakoji, K., Ostwald, J., Stahl, G., & Sumner, T. (1993) "Embedding Critics in Design Environments," The Knowledge Engineering Review Journal, 8(4), pp. 285-307.
  
  
  

10   Information Technologies for Communities of Learners

Presentation/Activity: Learning Webs, Organizational Learning and Organizational Memories

Guests: presentation: Jonathan Ostwald and Gerry Stahl)

Readings:

• Chapter about "Learning Webs" in Illich, I. (1971) Deschooling Society, Harper and Row, New York.

Visit Websites:

• http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ostwald/symposium (Website of L3D May-96 Workshop)
• http://www-l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~l3d/Research/ ---> research project about "Organizational Learning and Organizational Memory"
  
  
  

17   Evolution, Open Systems, End-User Programming

Readings:

• Fischer, G., McCall, R., Ostwald, J., Reeves, B., & Shipman, F. (1994) "Seeding, Evolutionary Growth and Reseeding: Supporting Incremental Development of Design Environments," Proceedings of the Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'94), pp. 292-298.

Visit Websites:

• Gamelan: http://www.gamelan.com
• Educational Object Economy (EOE) http://trp.research.apple.com/EdEconomy
• Behavior Exchange/Agentsheets: http://agentsheets.cs.colorado.edu/agents
  
  

24   Special Session: "Learning in the 21st Century" - Roundtable Discussion with a group of Distinguished Visitors

DECEMBER

1   Sustainability

Presentation/Activity:

• The Boulder County Healthy Communities Initiative
• Hands-on Activity: Playing sustainability games: The Eco Footprint ,Tax the Farmer, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, Simearth

Readings:

• President's Council on Sustainability, "Sustainable America: A new consensus for prosperity, opportunity and healthy environments"
• D. Schuler, "Direction and Implications," Chapter 11 in The New Community Networks.
  
  

8   Presentation of Students Projects (last day of classes is Dec. 10)