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Snap!
Snap! is a reimplementation of BYOB (Build Your Own Blocks), a languagefor teaching high school and college computer science inspired byScratch, extended with first class procedures, first class lists, andfirst class continuations. These extensions allow any control structureor data structure to be implemented in Snap! itself, by teachers or bylearners. Snap! 4.0 is now in…
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Here at Wired, we talk a lot about the evolving relationship between technology and culture. In order to help our readers keep up with the fast-paced changes of our increasingly digital world, we’ve decided to analyze the valuable lessons about technology contained within the most educational material that we as a society have ever produced:…
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I’m interested in developing an open-source sculpture/building “toy” system that will allow people to experiment with complexly curved shapes. The idea is to have a modeling system designed for a world in which curved architecture is increasingly prevalent, and in which tinkerers and designers are rapidly becoming enabled with 3D printers. I came very close…
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designbinge: Tangram cookie cutter, 3D printed
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likeafieldmouse: Alicia Framis & Nacho Alegre – Lost Astronaut (2009) so many feels
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A few years ago I began a project to explain Modernism via the original 1977 Star Wars movie. This is not an even match up. To understand everything you need to know about Star Wars takes 2 hours, but to understand even a small corner of Modernism is a project that can eat up ones…
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For the past while, Aaron Cope and I have been bouncing around the notion of the acceptability of incomplete object records. We know this from our work with Cooper-Hewitt’s ‘art museum quality’ collection records, and I have many stories from my past at Powerhouse that reinforce the value and potential engagement created through the public…
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shrinkrants: “Here I must say something briefly about the standard language that neuroscience has come to assume in the last fifty or so years (the subject deserves extended treatment). Even in sober neuroscience textbooks we are routinely told that bits of the brain “process information,” “send signals,” and “receive messages”—as if this were as uncontroversial…
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I’m late to the party. Holy Fire: art of the digital age. 2008. Catalog of essays named after a novel by Bruce Sterling. In the novel the drive to create art is referred to, poetically, as “the holy fire”. The catalog is now added to my to-read list.
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kchayka: “While we wring our hands about institutions, learning outside of school is exploding: DIY.org, iPad apps, Khan. Families will curate great online experiences for their kids and this curation will be considered “good parenting.” Families will learn a lot about what their children can and can’t do and sometimes they’ll know more than the…