5. Activity systems: Designing for/in context

Week 5 (February 23)

Decontextualized designs are a major reason computer-based interventions have failed to substantially shift classroom practice. We use activity theory to scope our designs and to frame the context for which we are designing.

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Readings

Gifford, B. R. & Enyedy, N. D. (1999). Activity centered design: towards a theoretical framework for CSCL. Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning - CSCL '99 (pp. 22–es). Association for Computational Linguistics. doi:10.3115/1150240.1150262

• Large Language Models in Education
• Assignments
• Schedule
• 1. (Snow day)
• 2. Introductions
• 3. How do LLMs work?
• 4. Designing AI tools
• 5. Activity systems: Designing for/in context
• 6. Prototyping
• 7. Needfinding
• 8. Planning a field study
• 9. Qualitative data analysis
• 10. Critiques
• 11. Quantitative data analysis
• 12. Data analysis workshop
• 13. Writing workshop
• 14. LLMs in Education Expo