Friday, July 29 2019
The Valdosta School
To: recipient
Re: (re)search
@TM
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“it creates an environment where people need to talk to each other to get the whole story.”
Space is the place for re-search. A distraction-free oasis capable of creating the conditions for systematic intellectual inquiry about important questions.
How to focus and operationalize the wisdom of crowds? Crowds that are now equipped with smartphones?
> polls
> unannounced quizlets
> participatory problem solving tasks (scavenger hunts, etc.)
> use time constraints and competition to keep kids on task
Atomize! Reify. explode > recombine | divergent > convergent
An experiment in collaborative knowledge-making, Dig! is about conducting research in bite-size doses of insight through an iterative process of aggregating, analyzing, and curating fragments of accumulated information.
An oasis in a torrent of information overload and meaningless repetition, Dig! is a knowledge repository that aims to be the antidote for two world weary academics prone to intellectual pursuits rather than clerical whack-a-mole.