{"id":682,"date":"2015-10-14T23:48:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T03:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:43","slug":"something-about-gordon-pask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/10\/something-about-gordon-pask\/","title":{"rendered":"Something about Gordon Pask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/Pask-Archive\/guardian-obit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gordon Pask<\/a>\u00a0spent his entire career building <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/pask\/Pask%20Cybernetic%20Serendipity%20Musicolour%20and%20Colloquy%20of%20Mobiles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immersive experiences<\/a>, teaching machines (only some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro\/pask\/pask SAKI 25 years of adaptive training.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">examples in this PDF<\/a>), experimental studies, and <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/pask\/Pask%20Developments%20In%20Conversation%20Theory%20Part%20Ir.pdf\">a theory of conversation<\/a>\u00a0(but here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/published\/cyb-and-con.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a simplified presentation<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While his 4 books and over 200 papers can be difficult (if rewarding) work to penetrate, there is a great deal of <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/published\/Instructions-and-Design-and-Conversation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">practical thinking in it all<\/a>.\u00a0(For more about Pask, see <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/pask-pdfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">related papers and videos<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Pask&#8217;s work was complex, rigorous, dense, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pangaro.com\/published\/Pask-as-Dramaturg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dramatic<\/a>. Pask was a <a href=\"http:\/\/cyberneticians.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cybernetician<\/a>. That&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pangaro.com\/definition-cybernetics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not easy to explain<\/a>,\u00a0either. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Well, like I said, that&#8217;s something about Pask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Pask\u00a0spent his entire career building immersive experiences, teaching machines (only some\u00a0examples in this PDF), experimental studies, and a theory of conversation\u00a0(but here&#8217;s a simplified presentation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[56,61,77],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interaction-design","tag-conversation","tag-cybernetics-2","tag-gordon-pask"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKWzH-b0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}