{"id":2877,"date":"2015-03-17T09:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T09:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:34:06","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T21:34:06","slug":"unexpected-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/unexpected-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>it is seldom about technology designers\u2019 a priori plans for a technology, and more about users\u2019 unexpected practices with it. That, to me, is the most fascinating and useful basis of research inquiry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ibrarspace.net\/2015\/02\/12\/brief-statement-on-digital-wisdom\/\">Brief statement on \u2018Digital Wisdom\u2019 | Ibrars space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love &#8216;<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">unexpected practices&#8217; it is why we need\u00a0<\/span>flexible<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0technology in Learning and Teaching. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>My favourite use for word when I was teaching primary 6\u00a0was as a poor man&#8217;s vector editor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandaigprimary.co.uk\/pivot\/pivot\/entry.php?id=1146\">Sandaig Otters\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0Seeing Stars<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve often been\u00a0surprised by how pupils and teachers bend unsuitable software to their needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it is seldom about technology designers\u2019 a priori plans for a technology, and more about users\u2019 unexpected practices with it. That, to me, is the most fascinating and useful basis of research inquiry. via Brief statement on \u2018Digital Wisdom\u2019 | Ibrars space. I love &#8216;unexpected practices&#8217; it is why we need\u00a0flexible\u00a0technology in Learning and Teaching. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,6],"tags":[296,34,269,40],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-enviable-stuff","7":"category-wwwd","8":"tag-ict","9":"tag-learning","10":"tag-software","11":"tag-technology","12":"kind-article","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-Kp","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}