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<div class="">One starting place might be Morgan Ames’ book The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child. Lots in there about how folks learn to compute post-GUIs.</div>
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<div class="">Fred Turner<br class="">
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<div class="">On Oct 8, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Paul Fishwick <<a href="mailto:metaphorz@gmail.com" class="">metaphorz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">There is a topic that has interested me, but I have been unable to make much headway in<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">past years since I am not sure where to look.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Consider that Kathy, an 8<sup class="">th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>grade student, knows more about how to use a computer than<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">her parents, who may know more than her grandparents. When learning to use digital<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">technology artifacts such as “menu”, education is imparted on Kathy. She learns something<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">about tree structures, and possibly finite state machines (FSMs). This is done invisibly because<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">she did not have to learn discrete mathematics and automata theory to use the computer.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">One hypothesis that all technology is this way. We use technology and technology<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">uses us (by invisibly transferring new mental models). The introduction of<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">the mechanical clock changed how we conceptualize time. Fast forwarding to digital<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">technology, Kathy must have conceptualized trees and FSMs as mental models even<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">though this theory was not made explicit.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">My searches have taken me to psychology (where the dominant discourse is about<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">dysfunction where technology is concerned), history of technology as well as the history<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">of science. This relates to math and computer science education too—teaching FSMs to<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">people through implicit means. Learning something without knowing that your learning<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">If anyone on this list has a good place for me to dive, let me know.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">Paul Fishwick, PhD<br class="">
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