miscellany
EndNotes
... or, since it's a new year, pehaps we should make that “Starting Notes” ...
“What do you mean Happy New Year??
I haven't finished with the old one yet!”
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“The future is something
which everyone reaches at
the rate of sixty minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is.”
— C.S.Lewis
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans, of
criticizing,
sanctioning and molding my life,
is too much of a daily
event for me.”
— Anaïs Nin
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When it came to new year resolutions,
Gerald was a realist!
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“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his
last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary
community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to
the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably
shorter than ever.”
— Mark Twain
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“My New Year's Resolution?
Delegate everything!”
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Children as Design
Partners
Making technology for kids without working directly with them, “is like
making clothes for someone you don’t know the size of.”
— Thomas
At the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland we
believe that children should have a voice in making new technology for
kids. Children's ideas need to be heard throughout the entire technology
design process. Therefore, in 1998 we began a unique technology design
team. Seven children, ages seven to eleven, join with researchers from
computer science, education, art, robotics, and other disciplines, twice
a week. Together we have become an intergenerational, interdisciplinary
design team. The team pursues projects, writes papers and creates new
technologies.
We have a chance to change technology, but more importantly we have a
chance to change the life of a child. Every time a new technology
enables a child to do something they never dreamed of, there are new
possibilities for the future.
— Dr. Allison Druin
Associate Professor, College of Information Studies
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... And when it actually comes to implementing
new year resolutions ...
