HCI Design — Implications for Education
It’s been a couple of weeks since graduation, but to keep the memory of completing my degree better intact I’ve decided to release my final review paper under the creative commons license shown at the bottom of my website. Partially it sums up pretty much my feelings and assertions of the role that advanced computing technology should have in learning. While I’m fairly confident in my writing, I must state that this is not published anywhere in any academic journal at this time. It isn’t peer-reviewed, so it’s validity and "publishability" is yet to be determined. I actually don’t expect it to get published at all. Not that the world is clamoring to read my every word, but who knows. With that said, I’ll trust the web community at large that they will respect the laws of copyright in their own country. Hopefully your parents have taught you well as mine have taught me to share and give credit where it’s due. My philosophy for this is based on my assertion that truth exists independently of learners and is out there for discovery amongst gigantic mountains of information. Well-educated and well-meaning truth-seekers can mine the truth that exists in these mountains of information. Once truth is mined, it can be refined into knowledge and shared with each individual learner. If that knowledge is then righteously and correctly applied by a learner it becomes wisdom. I don’t claim to be an expert learner, but those who know me closely know that I appreciate one’s ability to learn as a fundamental reason for us to exist.
So if you feel the need to call this work your own, be forewarned that by doing so you have missed the entire point of what it truly means to learn, as with all forms of cheating, plagiarism, dishonesty, etc. Wow, that was really deep…I think I’ll talk more about that later.
Hope you enjoy the paper. Here’s the link: Reivew Paper
And for those who think this post is too serious, I do in fact have a sense of humor. Today it was put away for a short time 
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