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Two fundamental ideas run through this book. The first is that it is possible to design computers so that learning to communicate with them can be a natural process, more like learning French by living in France than like trying to learn it through the unnatural process of American foreign-language instruction in classrooms. Second, learning to com
... See moreSeymour A Papert • Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
and it was Marx who turned them on to Takashi Murakami and Tsuguharu Foujita. It was Marx, with his love of avant-garde instrumental music, who played Brian Eno, John Cage, Terry Riley, Miles Davis, and Philip Glass on his CD player while Sadie and Sam worked. It was Marx who suggested they reread The Odyssey and The Call of the Wild and Call It Co
... See moreGabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Today, modding is mainstream in gaming on PCs, where the platforms tend to be more open than they are on consoles and mobile phones. The popular PC game store Steam has hundreds of millions of pieces of user-generated game mods and components. It’s not uncommon for hit games to begin as mods of other games, including League of Legends (an adaptatio
... See moreChris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Advocates of progressive education had long rejected rote learning, seeing it as not only authoritarian but also ineffective. Now they feared the new focus on math and science might exacerbate the problem. At the same time, even some tech-focused reformers were now wary of the problem of static thinking, and so it was that the progressive animosity
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Peer instruction, a learning model developed by Eric Mazur, incorporates many of the foregoing principles. The material to be covered in class is assigned for reading beforehand. In class, the lecture is interspersed with quick tests that present students with a conceptual question and give them a minute or two to grapple with it; they then try, in
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