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Spontaneous toy creation. The images are dated from 2012, but we started doing this many years earlier. At a restaurant that wrapped its silverware and napkins with a gummed paper ring my sons once were bored and cranky. I decided to make shapes with the paper rings, and happened upon a trireme-shaped boat with sail.…
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austinkleon: Ad Reinhardt, How to Look: Art Comics I wrote in 2011: “It frustrates me to no end that there isn’t an easily available collection of Reinhardt’s cartoons. They’re so brilliant.” And lo’ and behold! Now there’s a collection. More about ‘em: …long before Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg took shots at the high-mindedness of…
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thisistheverge: Watch the first episode of AMC’s tech drama ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ right now AMC has been building hype for its upcoming drama Halt and Catch Fire, and today it’s letting viewers watch the first episode for free. Starting today and running through May 31st, viewers will be able to watch the episode both…
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Survey Question: How does gamification affect learning? I think it’s time we had a frank talk about what gamification is, and why we should stop doing it — or at least, why we should agree that if we’re not going to stop doing it, we ought to stop calling everything that involves real-world game design…
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Our first instinct, when we read about these experiments, is that what the interventions must be doing is changing students’ minds — replacing one deeply held belief with another. And it is hard to imagine that reading words on a computer screen for 25 minutes could possibly do that. People just aren’t that easy to…
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3-D print your way to freedom and prosperity
3-D print your way to freedom and prosperity The rhetoric surrounding the maker movement is shot through with claims that hold up personal fabrication as an ideal, decentralized, noninstitutional technological system. As Chris Anderson, former editor in chief of Wired, puts it in his cover story cum manifesto on the subject, people “can become a…