User:Steven Gomez/Project:Expression Representation Variability.11

How do people with different background/training communicate ideas?

Related

"Visual Thinking in Action: Visualizations As Used On Whiteboards"

Methods

First step, get slides from different folks, domains. Some basic background info ("what is the topic?", "how general is the audience? size?", "where presented?"). Ask GSBB, see how many we get.

Concepts to explain, teach

Spatial Concepts

• Assembly instructions, or how simple mechanical devices work
  • Doorknob
  • Ballpoint pen (e.g., how ink rubs on on the papers and the ball is "re-inked" by gravity)
• Maps
  • Drawing a map from Brown CIT down to Kennedy Plaza from memory -- what do subjects include?

Non-spatial (or, not observable) Concepts

• Chemical processes
  • Acid + Base = Water + Salt
  • Rust/Oxidation

• Astronomical processes
  • Greenhouse gas build up
  • Albedo -- light absorption/reflection
  • How a cell phone calls another cell phone

• Computational processes
  • Explaining concurrency, race conditions, deadlocks
  • Explaining inductive proofs to non-math people
  • Explaining the 'map' function (i.e., for all elements, or numbers, in a set apply some function to get a new set)
  • Describe a traffic light "state machine" based on a set of written observations
    • See how they figure out the rules, then how they explain it to someone else