Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Design thinking, in the classroom

Design thinking has been a central focus of our course, and the emphasis has always been on applying this thinking to the world around us. What inspired me to write this blog was not something I saw, but something I didn't see - A laptop with an outward facing camera.Now that even cheap laptops can store massive amounts of information, why not keep a library of lectures? Nothing written on the whiteboard or projected onto a screen would ever be truly lost, at the cost of adding one small camera to the backside of the screen. Not only would this be useful in an educational environment, but it could bring efficient recording to the business world. But has it been done? Is the extra camera economical?
Food for thought - an audio recorder could be incredibly useful, but also seems much more difficult to integrate. I can't help but feel that if built-in microphones were viable, it would have been done. Thoughts?

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