Knowledge Commons | Alistair Kwan | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/alistairkwan/activity/ Activity feed for Alistair Kwan. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:58:22 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 806f8f9ff7fd6ea508acb9f586e90b03 Alistair Kwan deposited Re-defining ‘evidence’: appraising for historical value as historians turn to media and materiality https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769479/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 01:06:31 -0500 The historical value of duplicates, damaged, and ‘worthless’ materials.

]]> 0 ddf7854c7c13e898dcaa574de6fbc9c4 Alistair Kwan's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769478/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:59:43 -0500 0 1bbeca8704d6d59c044b1ac68f296e2c Alistair Kwan deposited Reading instruments for historical scientific practice: an experiential pedagogy for material culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1769332/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 03:30:17 -0500 Environmental psychology and design theory applied to scientific and technological instruments for pedagogy, material culture methods, and historiography of science and technology.

]]> 0 68d21ba90eeeb0514b0b431c743bb460 Alistair Kwan deposited 3D-printed facsimiles as classroom primary sources: a comparative review in the group Digital Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639174/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:25:32 -0400 3D prints have been promised as a saviour of material truth, a path to universal primary source accessibility. By replicating a Babylonian tablet using several 3D print technologies, we show that 3D scanning and printing are as fraught as any other representational technology. The scans and prints alike feature technological infidelities, some of…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b0a56d651a6bb3f1a4f4b651eab6f6d Alistair Kwan deposited "Do not kill guinea pig before setting up apparatus:" : the kymograph's lost educational context in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639107/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:25:29 -0400 The objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was never a stand-alone instrument, but intertwined with conceptual frameworks and technical skills,…[Read more]

]]> 0 142ca459c4c195f81d574d15a4c2d6ac Alistair Kwan deposited "Do not kill guinea pig before setting up apparatus:" : the kymograph's lost educational context in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639106/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:25:26 -0400 The objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was never a stand-alone instrument, but intertwined with conceptual frameworks and technical skills,…[Read more]

]]> 0 142ca459c4c195f81d574d15a4c2d6ac Alistair Kwan deposited "Do not kill guinea pig before setting up apparatus:" : the kymograph's lost educational context in the group Education Sciences https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639105/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:25:26 -0400 The objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was never a stand-alone instrument, but intertwined with conceptual frameworks and technical skills,…[Read more]

]]> 0 09851e6447940913f8c391780c2cbc6f Alistair Kwan deposited "Do not kill guinea pig before setting up apparatus:" : the kymograph's lost educational context in the group Education and Pedagogy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1639104/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:25:21 -0400 The objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was never a stand-alone instrument, but intertwined with conceptual frameworks and technical skills,…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ea00733369bcedf39f5c9c51d9d7a38 Alistair Kwan deposited "Do not kill guinea pig before setting up apparatus:" : the kymograph's lost educational context https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638619/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:33:39 -0400 The objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was never a stand-alone instrument, but intertwined with conceptual frameworks and technical skills,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4cc58f00ccc2cb908317b0d1d076326 Alistair Kwan's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638616/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:14:05 -0400 0 63abb523695283f1c8cbc4b5de855f9b Alistair Kwan deposited 3D-printed facsimiles as classroom primary sources: a comparative review https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638615/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:11:02 -0400 3D prints have been promised as a saviour of material truth, a path to universal primary source accessibility. By replicating a Babylonian tablet using several 3D print technologies, we show that 3D scanning and printing are as fraught as any other representational technology. The scans and prints alike feature technological infidelities, some of…[Read more]

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