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additivism: How technology made us hyper-capable – and helpless Tech enables us to do more while understanding less. That’s fine, until there’s a glitch – which is why the US navy is teaching sailors how to navigate by the stars The smartphone in your hand enables you to record a video, edit it and send it…
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Gentrification spreads the myth of native incompetence: That people need to be imported to be important, that a sign of a neighbourhood’s “success” is the removal of its poorest residents. True success lies in giving those residents the services and opportunities they have long been denied. The peril of hipster economics (via socio-logic)
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Programmers, computer scientists, and critical theorists have reduced software to a recipe, a set of instructions, substituting space/text for time/process. The current common-sense definition of software as a “set of instructions that direct a comptuer to do a specific task” and the OED definition of software as “the programs and procedures required to enable a…
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superheroesincolor: This Strange Way of Dying (2013) “Spanning a variety of genres—fantasy, science fiction, horror—and time periods, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s exceptional debut collection features short stories infused with Mexican folklore yet firmly rooted in a reality that transforms as the fantastic erodes the rational. This speculative fiction compilation, lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, weaves the…
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New research project will make computer science more hands-on in the classroom—meet Project Bloks
codeorg: At Code.org we’re all about finding lots of different ways for students to interact with computational thinking. That’s why we’re excited about Project Bloks, a collaboration between Google, Paulo Blikstein (Director of the Transformative Learning Technologies Lab, Stanford University) and IDEO. Project Bloks is creating an open hardware platform through which developers, designers, and…