Cybernetics & Curriculum Design
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2023
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The Ohio State University Libraries
Abstract
In this participatory design portfolio, I describe the theoretical framework, and provide a practical guide for a cybernetic curricular design approach applied to an educational psychology college class for preservice teachers. The first part describes how the two iterations of the curriculum were designed in a manner following Gordon Pask’s approach to cybernetics to create a technology-assisted collaborative environment, and Gregory Bateson’s idea on the double bind to make this environment informationally open, to allow students to transcend siloed communicative classroom systems to learn new ideas related to educational theory and practice from everyday life, popular culture, and the Internet. The second part describes tools/technologies, and activities used throughout the semester and contextualizes them within Paskian and Batesonian cybernetic frameworks. The third part provides a comprehensive week by week guide of the class schedule in the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 sessions.
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cybernetics, constructivism, curriculum design, teaching, learning