Tilak, Shantanu;
Manning, Thomas;
Glassman, Michael;
Pangaro, Paul;
Scott, Bernard;
(2024)
Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory and Interaction of Actors Theory: Research to Practice.
Enacting Cybernetics
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, Article 1. 10.58695/ec.11.
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Abstract
This three-part paper presents Gordon Pask’s conversation theory (CT) and interaction of actors theory (IA) and outlines ways to apply these cybernetic approaches to designing technologies and scenarios for both formal and informal learning. The first part of the paper covers concepts central to CT and IA, explaining the relationship between conceptual and mechanical operators, and machines mediating informal and formal learning. The second part of the paper applies visual representations of CT and IA to understanding the use of Pask’s course assembly systems (CASE and THOUGHTSTICKER), created between the late 1960s and the 1980s, and the ThoughtShuffler search interface, created in the 2010s. The third part proposes two pathways for design based on CT and IA: firstly, the potential for designers and observers to reformulate the qualities of tools and learning scenarios to augment human thinking and collective action; and secondly, the possibility to create tools with malleable interfaces that allow users to become intermediaries rather than consumers of knowledge.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory and Interaction of Actors Theory: Research to Practice |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.58695/ec.11 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.58695/ec.11 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 The author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (unless stated otherwise) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Gordon Pask; technology; human-computer interaction; psychology; cybernetics |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196048 |
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