Difference between revisions of "Open 2009 notes"

Revision as of 12:38, 5 November 2009

5th of November

Keynote: Yrjö Engeström - The educational value of learning by cheating

• Tries to explain why cheating is good
• Studying stuff that will be on tests, not the whole content
• learning vs. grades
• not very useful to memorize lots of irrelevant stuff
• Italy has a culture of cheating in final exams
• It takes months to prepare a good cheating ware (belts etc.)
• Gathering data from multiple sources to create a synthesis of knowledge
• Preparation involves parents, grandparents and friends
• Bad cheating is to use a ready made cheating slips
• Good cheating is to create your own slips
• Several students did not need to use cheating slips -> preparing them was enough
• Cheating involves bad questions (fixed answers) and bad teaching
• In a test with good questions (no fixed answer) cheating is not that useful -> you can't find correct answers anywhere

Keynote: Jiri Räsänen - eCars Now!

• Open design EV
• eCars now! community, mostly finnish people participating
• Open source, documentation and CAD models
• Community has a wide range of backgrounds
• Electric cars have a history beginning from early 1900's
• Conversion takes only one weekend
• Compromises needs to be made because of fund limits related to material world
• Note to self: check out google sketch

Microdemocracy

• NOTE tool (database for ideas)
• works as a organizational memory
• different channels for posting notes
• somehow linked

Somus

Wikiplanning

• Public participation in planning (city planning)
• No actual electric tool yet...