Tag: Learning
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77 tips
You mileage may vary with these tips, but if you are looking for ideas as to what to help your own learning on ideas as to how to help your students, this might be an interesting read.
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Will Wright, Montessori and toys
GU has a bit part on Wright’s comments from SxSW: I went to Montessori school till 5th grade, and Maria Montessori, her idea was if you build toys and let kids play with them, they explore and discover the principles of the world around them by themselves. The games I make I think of in…
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It’s always been about communication
One of the things that we know for sure is that technology is something that moderates power. Largely the technologies that do the most moderation are those that deal with communication. So when we think about those who don’t have access to technology, we usually look at those that don’t have the money. But what…
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Funny Failure
Will Wright mentions funny failure in the last third of the PopSci Podcast. They built the creature lab knowing that there are certain constraints that are required to allow the creature to “live” and knowing how flexible the system is, they also have a system that is very flexible and that will be pushed to…
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Failure to understand… failure
One of the things that they teach in just about any course that deals with life saving is empathy. I remember in my Bronze Cross and Medallion classes, the instructor would make us do empathy drills so that we could feel what it was like to be a drowning non-swimmer (pretty scary). In Engineering courses,…