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Due to some unforeseen technical issues with uploading the powerpoint onto my blog, I still wanted to make sure you were able to see this week’s assignment.

I have included the transcript for the narration of the video:

Slide 1 – Hi my name is Cheyenne Campbell, and today I will be presenting on the topic of Fuller’s Theory.

Slide 2 – Before I get into the actual theory, I think that it is very important to talk about Buckmister Fuller as a person. Fuller was a 20th century “social thinker”. He was a renown inventor and visionary whose main ideas focused on making the world work for all humanity.

Slide 3 – Fuller’s “Double Knowledge Curve” theory deals with the growth of knowledge. He noticed that until 1900, human knowledge doubled every century, by 1945 it doubled by every 25 years, and now it’s doubled every 13 month. It is predicted to continue to grow up to doubling every 12 months.

Slide 4 – Fuller is also very well known for his work with the Geodesic Dome and dymaxion house, car, and bathroom. His inventions led to the modern day playground structure and greenhouses we see today.

Slide 5 – In today’s world, one of his biggest contributions, besides from his very famous artifact the Geodesic dome, is his influence on the new generations of scientists, architects, and designers.

Slide 6 – Thank you for listening and I hope I was able to provide you with some new information and a different perspective on the technological world we know and the ever-changing world we have yet to see.

Eportfolio screencast from Cheyenne Campbell on Vimeo.

This week’s assignment was to review a professional’s ePortfolio in the career path in which you are pursuing.

In the video, you will hear my narration as I take you along on Gretchen Seibel’s Eportfolio. As an aspiring elementary school teacher, I thought it was fitting to take a look at her page. During the narration, you will hear me talk about what I like and dislike about her page as well as making sure her site works and the information is organized.

In this week’s module, we read about learning theories and focused on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains. 

Up first, we looked at an article on simplypsychology.com discussing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist whose main focus was on self-actualization and happiness within ourselves. His best known work is the Hierarchy of Needs which is a five-tier pyramid diagram presenting his view on the level of human needs. The five-tier pyramid consists of physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem needs, and the final step, self actualization. The first 4 steps are what he called “deficiency needs”. These needs are considered steps that are desired if not met. Since the lower levels on the pyramid consist of food, water, sleep, safety, relationships, etc., all of which are deemed necessary for living, Maslow explained that we first must meet these primary stages before moving onto the higher “growth needs” levels. In the real world this would show that once you feel confident in your food, money, and relationship situations for example, then you would feel less anxiety and therefore feel more motivated to work on yourself without the fear of not reaching basic human needs. The purpose of the pyramid is to show the order in which humans take to achieve self actualization. This final stage is the point where we achieve our full potential and feel the most grounded in ourselves. In later years, cognitive, aesthetic, and transcendence needs were added showing that there are many ways to feel fulfilled in yourself and even though the order in which we get there might look different for everyone, the basic needs and issues we feel as people relatively remain the same. 

We then looked at Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains, another learning theory from this week’s reading. This theory was created by Benjamin Samuel Bloom, an educational psychologist, in 1956. His learning domains consist of 3 categories: 1. Cognitive, 2. Affective, and 3. Psychomotor. These categories, along with the subcategories, were thought up by Bloom in education to promote higher level thinking widespread. The first domain, cognitive, deals with knowledge and mental skills. In this domain we see Bloom’s taxonomy and even an updated version as well. The new domain includes: creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, and remembering. These show that higher level thinking includes going above and beyond just your typical “question-answer”, but it allows you to go more in depth and shows a clear process on what thinking deeper really means. For example, college level writing goes above and beyond just typing whatever comes to mind and submitting it. Instead, you must create a paper, evaluate and analyze your first draft, apply changes, understand your material, and remember your facts to deepen your knowledge on the subject area. The affective domain deals with emotions and attitudes. This category deals with values, feelings, and attitudes and how we deal with them and grow in certain areas. The final domain, psychomotor, deals with the physical skills. Growth in this area requires practice because it deals with tasks like building, sports, and manual labor for example. Bloom’s main goal was to show that growth is possible and it can come in many different areas in your life.

In this week’s assignment we read about Moore’s Law, Fuller’s Theory, Kurzweil’s Law, and Thiel’s Theory. 

Through the readings and videos, it has become more clear to me just how much technology has evolved in a span of 100, even 50 years. Looking back at the last century we have seen highways, printers, microwaves, computers, and most recently, in the past 15 years, smartphones and “portable computers”.  Technologies that we see as necessary today were merely fiction to the world 100 years ago. The technological world has made huge strides in the products themselves; however, what we do seem to forget is that all of the advances that we have seen started with an idea. Men like Moore, Fuller, Kurzweil, and Thiel, alive or passed, have sparked new ideals and ways of looking at the world through the eyes of technical advancement. 

Gordon Moore is not only the co-founder and chairman of Intel Corporations, but he is also an entrepreneur, computer scientist, and the creator of Moore’s law.  He along with Buckminster Fuller, the brain behind the knowledge doubling curve and Geodesic Dome, believed in “more with less” and that there is more in the world of technology than what meets the eye. In 1965 Moore wrote in Electronics Magazine about the computer chip and the bright future of the computing industry. His law explains that in the foreseeable future, transistors will and have doubled every 2 years.  He played a key role in bringing chip power to your pocket. Moore believed in computers getting smaller while their power, speed, and efficiency simultaneously getting stronger. Buckminster Fuller also centered his work around efficiency, however he, compared to Moore, used nature and the physical world around him to fuel his innovations. His theory refers to the knowledge and information that humanity has been given, also known as the knowledge doubling curve. Fuller was a 20th century “social thinker” whose main studies where around the dymaxion house, car, unit, and bathroom with expertise on the Geodesic Dome.  Like Moore’s aid in chip power in your pocket, Fuller’s invention, the Geodesic Dome was lightweight and inexpensive.He looked at geometry shapes in nature to fuel his biggest accomplishment which led to modern day playground structures, greenhouses, and even some homes. His theory focuses on creating abundance in innovations while causing no harm to the Earth. 

Ray Kurzweil and Peter Thiel, in contrast to Moore and Fuller, have played major roles in technologies that we see and use more directly in today’s world. Kurzweil is an inventor, author, futurist and proposed the “Law of Accelerating Returns”. He is involved in speech recognition and text-to-voice computer speaking. His law basically says that when one generation of technology creates new advances, it opens up another door for more advances to build upon. He mainly focuses on the exponential increase in artificial intelligence, computers, robotics, and nanotechnology which he built upon Moore’s law. He did this by taking the law proposed by Moore and explained that improvement in technology has a lot to do with computer chips, but it is not fully based on it. Just as ambitious as Kurzweil, Peter Thiel, billionaire and co-creator of PayPal, wants to lead the world to create new technologies and platforms rather than just building on top of each other. He believes that as of now we are in a place of stagnation in atoms, such as energy, transportation, and space. His theory refers to empowering a world of entrepreneurs to focus on hard topics and face battles in more technological startups rather than political startups. By now, in the modern world, he would have thought there would be flying cars, but all he sees are more and more social media outlooks instead of real advancements in technology. 

After reading through this week’s assignment, I was hesitant on to what to include in my blog. After watching the videos it became more clear to me just how vast and ever growing our world is. Once one new technology or invention is created, it really sparks a whole new generation for technology that in the moment sounds impossible. I wonder what the world will look like in the next 100 years.

Hello 🙂

My name is Cheyenne and I am a student at the University of South Florida. I love my family, the beach, and chocolate. My favorite saying is spread happiness and choose kindness !

This blog is for coursework/notes in my Tech for Leading and Learning class.