Start from enhancing sign-system

My proposed solution package

Critical pedagogy, and learners' perception of the affordances in LD tasks

When facing an phenomena,

• Experts activate a much bigger and complicated internal sign-machine net then JPFs and novices. 
• Pedagogy and practice can help one on the road of becoming an expert

What about facing an LD phenomena, can we help learners on the road of becoming experts with giving them the well-designed pedagogy and practice.

 

A robot that can help you design your own intelligence

Understanding HI will inform understanding of AI

Analogy: learn about medical-practice through a robot; learn about learning-design through a robot – a special robot that thinks and learns like a real person, if successfully help the robot learns, one can transfer the skills in help a real person learn

This learning-robot can be a character in a game-setting, or be a AR-mix-smart-museum-object

AI & HI

As I watch a reality show that presents some competition between (HI) humane intelligence and (AI) artificial intelligence

• I always try to make sense of the performance-task-analysis by the humane-person and by the robot 
• I care more that, even for same/similar tasks, how a human-person can better learn and practice it. 

It is becoming popular for kids to learn some programming skills of operating robots.

• How about the“programming skills”on their building the“codes in their own minds? “ (sign-machine-in-their-own-minds)? 
• Aren't these“programming-skills”equal to learning-design skills? 

Robots are machines, in the future, some persons might work as engineers in AI-related fields; maybe more persons are only the users of AI-products.

• But, every person will be a lifelong“engineer”to design and build sign-systems in their own minds. 
• So, should NOT learning about learning-design be more important and widespread than learning about coding-a-robot?

Tool for synthesizing theories of learning

I have tried to synthesize theories of learning for 10 years, since my master-thesis project.

• as I improve my understanding of current theories by re-reading books, and by re-interpreting theories in practice 
• as I borrow more analogies from other fields or to be informed by philosophy 
• as I can create some analogy-based physical features for concepts in these theories 
• I can see that it is becoming more feasible to synthesize these theories. 

I have tried many approaches and created some synthesized pieces along different dimensions.

I hope to design synthesize-tools to facilitate the effort of synthesizing, by individual, organization, and community.

Analogy tool

In my l0-years effort of trying to solve learning-design problems, I explicitly using many analogies.

Overtime, I have built an enriched database of analogies. I have figured out some data-structures of doing analogy-reasoning.

I have the intention of building an analogy-tool that can facilitate people’s use of analogies in solving problems.

All the above conditions ensure that I create some prototype-ideas for an analogy tool.

I hope that these functions can be integrated with some knowledge building tools and SNS community.