Well, I know its been a long time since my last entry. I have been busy, I asure my readers. Wow, I just checked my last entry…it has been awhile. Since then, I have been busy writing out some of my ideas on graphic design education for various conferences. In fact I just returned from New Views 2 in London. It was great. Met some fantastic people with similar interests and was able to present my reasearch to an international body. I had a great response from both my ideas and my comic book series. I will talk about this more later in a later entry. One of my big concerns was that most educators were trying or have been changing their curricula to fit the mold of industry, students, and academie. The updated curricula that I viewed were very rich and most promoted deep learning in some sense. I proposed that instead on looking at changing curricula, I feel that it is more important to help educators in some way, understand how to look at how they teach and for the importance that educators need to be aware of basic pedagogical principle to help facilitate a research-learning environment. (deep learning/teaching)
To my surprise many educators I spoke with did not have the research culture that I am use to. Many did not understand the importance of Design Research or even what it really is. If you discuss the method of design research and practice-based research, there seemed more of a consensous. I’ll brief this later as well. This was suppose to be just an introductory entry.
So welcome back!
