The scientist Stuart Kauffman has a suggestive name for the set of all those first-order combinations: "the adjacent possible." The phrase captures both the limits and the creative potential of change and innovation. In the case of prebiotic chemistry, the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
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The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations. Think of it as a house that magically expands with each door you open. You begin in a room with four doors, each leading to a new room that you haven't visited yet. Once you open one of those doors and stroll into that room, three new doors appear, each leading to a brand-new room that you couldn't have reached from your original starting point. Keep opening new doors and eventually you'll have built a palace.
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Calling All Hackers
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Calling All Hackers!
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Calling All Hackers!
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"challenge students with quick creative challenges aimed at having students reflect on and create multimedia statements about themselves. The hope is that these kind of projects immediately introduce to the students a few critical ideas: They will use their devices to create, They will consider what is meaningful to them, They will share their work."
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"challenge students with quick creative challenges aimed at having students reflect on and create multimedia statements about themselves. The hope is that these kind of projects immediately introduce to the students a few critical ideas: They will use their devices to create, They will consider what is meaningful to them, They will share their work."
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Kids need to learn to hack.
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The 3 P’s It all comes down to what researchers call “explanatory style.” When bad things happen, what kind of story do you tell yourself? There are three important elements here. Let’s call them the 3 P’s: permanence, pervasiveness and whether it’s personal. Pessimists tell themselves that bad events: Will last a long time, or forever. (“I’ll never get this done.”) Are universal. (“You can’t trust any of those people.”) Are their own fault. (“I’m terrible at this.”) Optimists, well, they see it the exact opposite: Bad things are temporary. (“That happens occasionally but it’s no big deal.”) Bad things have a specific cause and aren’t universal. (“When the weatheris better that won’t be a problem.”) It’s not their fault. (“I’m good at this but today wasn’t my lucky day.”) Seligman explains: The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything they do, and are their own fault. The optimists, who are confronted with the same hard knocks of this world, think about misfortune in the opposite way. They tend to believe defeat is just a temporary setback, that its causes are confined to this one case. The optimists believe defeat is not their fault: Circumstances, bad luck, or other people brought it about. Such people are unfazed by defeat. Confronted by a bad situation, they perceive it as a challenge and try harder. And when good things happen, the situation reverses: Pessimists think good things will be short-lived, are rare and random. Optimists think good things will last forever, are universal and of their own doing. What’s the ultimate result of this? Pessimists often quit. Life feels futile. And when life feels futile, you stop trying and frequently get depressed. So now we understand the kind of thinking that underlies these positions… but how do you go from one to the other? Research shows you should act like a crazy person… Okay, I’ll be more specific.
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the Free Library of Philadelphia and
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Over 10% of their libraries are closed for varying emergencies. How can they expand services into maker spaces without affecting other services. Political issues here about money.
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we’re inviting you to think about how you can tell a story using light.
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how does this connect those of us without the tinkering supplies? Same problen from last week, Too damned much friction to participate.
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deepening the conversation
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Or will we be widening the gap between the tinkering 'haves' and the non-dominant 'have nots'.
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"How do you represent the rhythm of a poem through images and layout? How do you represent the stanzas of a poem through images and layout? How can narrating a poem through images encourage the reader to think on a greater or smaller sense of scale and meaning? How does adding moving images (video) to a poem affect the rhythm and structure of the poem as a whole? How can adding moving images contribute to the intended tone? What about words that defy image, are they really necessary to convey additional meaning? If I think I've successfully figured out a way to visually represent a comma, but my reader doesn't understand that subtle visual as a comma, was my interpretation of a comma unsuccessful? Will anyone realize that the yellow star is a link to a .gif? What is lost if they don't? Is it okay if that is lost? "
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Use google forms to create a choose your own adventure story.
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