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Desire unmatched by skills equals disempowerment for computing students
At the CITRENZ conference last week Dobrila and Mike Lopez presented an interesting paper on sustainability worldviews of incoming students at Manukau Institute of Technology (pdf). Their paper aimed to replicate our study of Otago Polytechnic students (summarised in post “Can’t rely on geeks” here, from original paper). This replication aimed to cement the generalisability […]
Dunedin Digital Strategy: Content needs process; upscale Capability; add Catalyst
July 16, 2010
Here’s my submission on the Dunedin Digital Strategy. I applaud the development of this document, its direction and all the initiatives described. I do, however, have two areas of concern: Content; and Capability, and suggest a new project area: Catalyst. Content The strategy describes worthwhile projects to increase DCC content on the web. Unfortunately, this […]
Posted in: Dunedin
CityScape team wins national award – again!
July 14, 2010
CityScape is a panoramic exhibition system for the Otago Settlers’ Museum. It engages visitors to the museum in building a shared narrative of place. Sustainability is a theme in our capstone projects. We have a focus on communicating and engaging people in aspects of sustainability. We took the CityScape poster to the CITRENZ Conference (incorporating […]
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology, Otago Polytechnic
Twin chalk towers
July 10, 2010
It’s the school holidays and there’s Kids on Campus. It’s great to see them tearing all over campus having a ball. The oldest of these kids is perhaps 12, which makes them perhaps 2-3 in 2001. So, this lunchtime chalk drawing caught my eye. Robot Love and Twin Towers in chalk In the foreground of […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Computing is ubiquitous, but experiences are design-led
July 1, 2010
Knuth described the “art of programming”, but the relationship between art and code is somewhat uneasy. For many years we have seen papers at conferences making excuses for computing students’ inabilities when it comes to design. Those of us who teach computing have all sat through assessments where students show us something functional but truly […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 20, 2010
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