Discussion of IA education

["Victor Lombardi" <victor AT victorlombardi.com>]

Great, so how do we do this? The first semester I taught, my students
freaked out that the syllabus wasn't complete. Without knowing exactly
what they had to do week to week they were very insecure.

Another way of asking this is, how big of a fish to we teach them to
catch? In between the general directive of "Go design" and explaining the
specifics of Hick's Law there's a lot of levels of granularity at which we
could stop feeding them and asking them to think.

James Spahr said:
> I'd say so. It's all about teaching a man to fish instead of just
> giving him a meal.
>
> I'm a huge fan of teaching people how to think -- especially in the
> field of IA, where for the immediate future, change is a certainty.
> Teaching the how's of IA and not why we do the things we do is a sure
> way to establish a non-evolving profession.
>
>
> James.
>
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