Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Notes from Discussion 1/9

For todays discussion I thought we generated an excellent list of factors that could be considered when you ask questions for project 1. I think this will help you to more effectively examine how humans make sense of time.

Here is the list of the main cognitive activities associated with the use of the clock that we generated:

Reason about function
Representation of the numbers
Knowledge for the individual units for calculations
Estimating distance
Mapping the distance to a physical world
Mapping physical world to a distance
Perception in relation to amount of light

Here are the question that we generated for project 1:

Questions:
How differences in day and night are represented
How do we establish the meaning of the numbers to real world events
What is the starting point
How do you read the clock
What are the measurements of time
Where do you position the clock
Why are the numbers situated in certain places
What are the practices of looking at the clock
How differences in day and night are represented
How do we establish the meaning of the numbers to real world events
What is the starting point
How do you read the clock
What are the measurements of time
Where do you position the clock

I really appreciate all the input from everyone today. It seems like we have a really good group for our discussion and I expect that we're going to have a great quarter.

please feel free to add comment here or ask questions

2 comments:

Joachim Lyon said...

Dude, you guys get to do clocks? I recall doing Keys... I want to come to your section!

Jared said...

yeah keys were way less interesting then clocks.