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Every day, we engage in sense-making from a torrent of information. And we attempt to help others construct meaning in the learning experiences we design and provide. But what if we had a better understanding of how people create meaning as they interact with the world? Would that make you better at what you do? In this episode, I speak with Karl Fast, coauthor of Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding.
Karl helps people think well in a world jam-packed with information. He has worked on complex information problems across startups, space science, intranets, education, and the Fortune 500. He holds a PhD in information science and is a former professor of User Experience Design. As a writer, he explores how information shapes the human experience.
- What the book covers: associations, external representations, interactions and coordinating for understanding
- Benefits to thinking of information as raw material
- The meaning of understanding
- How the science of mind is evolving: behaviorism, computational model, embodied cognition
- Evidence of the deep connection between mind, body and the world
- Difference between pragmatic and epistemic actions
- A taxonomy of actions that help us figure it out
- Coordinating it all for better understanding
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TIME: 44 minutes
RESOURCES:
- Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding by Stephen P. Anderson and Karl Fast
- More about Karl Fast
- Twitter: @karlfast
- How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker
- Liquid Text
- Ikea Hackers 🙂
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