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theatlantic: Japan’s Cutthroat School System: A Cautionary Tale for the U.S. “No Child Left Behind.” “Race to the Top.” The names suggest mobility, progress, moving on up and not falling back. The goal of education, according to these national education initiatives with their standards and testing, is forward motion and competitive advantage, progress and success,…
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Hopscotch for Code Drawings
Hopscotch is an iOS app for iPads designed as a coding environment that can facilitate learning through tinkering by young ones. It takes a great deal of inspiration from Scratch. I’ve begun to explore its capabilities and limitations. The first series of “code drawings” – drawings made with code as medium – were explored with…
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Code Drawing 02. Two selected states from fifth attempt. Last one of the night. Made with Hopscotch.
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Code Drawing 02. All three selected states from fourth attempt. Made with Hopscotch.
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Code Drawing 02. All three selected states from third attempt. Made with Hopscotch.
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Code Drawing 01. Six of twenty+ selected states from fifth attempt. Added second sprite and ran for many more iterations. Made with Hopscotch.
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Code Drawing 01. All four selected states from third attempt. Made with Hopscotch.
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Code Drawing 01. All four selected states from second attempt. Made with Hopscotch.
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Code Drawing 01, all six selected states from first attempt. Made with Hopscotch.
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Here before you is the surviving correspondence between Kathy Acker and MacKenzie Wark. These emails were hastily written, casual and often indirect; they crossed “in the mail” and both the sequence and references may confuse the reader. The authors barely knew each other, the correspondence lasts a little over two weeks, and their relationship lasted…