Design Considerations for Digitizing a Democracy

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Design Considerations for Digitizing a Democracy

• Anthony B. Maddox
• (amaddox_at_ucla.edu)
• Graduate School of Education Information
  Studies
• University of California, Los Angeles

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Learning and Working

• Potential shifts in responsibility and locus of
  control from institutions to individuals

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Cognitive

• Families, communities, and democracies as
  reflective learning institutions

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Mutual Agency

• Capacity to educate and opportunity to learn

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Citizen-centered

• Learner-centered and community-centered

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Mass Customization

• Intellectual commodities, products, services,
  experiences, and transformations

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Participatory

• The Knows may be the Have-Nots and the Haves may
  be the Know-Nots

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Usability

• The interface is the system - establish genuine
  dialogues

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Self-sustaining

• Here todayhere tomorrow

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Balanced

• "Look and feel" of Social Constructivism and
  Technological Determinism

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Parent PALS Initiative

• Intellectual support for families needing
  specialized higher learning knowledge