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Ed Webb

Alan Kay, Systems, and Textbooks « Theatrical Smoke - 2 views

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education learning systems LiberalArts gaming

shared by Ed Webb on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • I discuss his key idea: that systemic thinking is a liberal art, and I explain a corollary idea, that textbooks suck
  • if you don’t have a category for an idea, it’s very difficult to receive that idea
  • the story of the last few hundred years is that we’ve quickly developed important ideas, which society needs to have to improve and perhaps even to continue to exist, and for which there are no pre-existing, genetically created categories. So there’s an idea-receiving capacity gap.
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  • Education’s job should be, says Kay, to bridge this gap. To help, that is, people form these necessary new idea-receiving categories–teaching them the capacity for ideas–early on in their lives, so that as they grow they are ready to embrace the things we need them to know. Let me say that in a better way: so that as they grow they are ready to know in the ways we need them to know.
  • cultivate the ability to conceive of, work with, create, understand, manipulate, tinker with, disrupt, and, generally, appreciate the beauty of systems
  • Seeing systems is an epistemology, a way of knowing, a mindset
  • a game, or a simulation, thought of as a thing we might create (rather than a thing we only act within), is a visceral example of systems thinking
  • It’s the Flatland story–that we need to train our 2D minds to see in a kind of 3D–and Kay’s genius is that he recognizes we have to bake this ability into the species, through education, as close to birth as possible.
  • Systems thinking is to be conceived of as a platform skill or an increased capacity on top of which we will be able to construct new sorts of ideas and ways of knowing, of more complex natures still. The step beyond seeing a single system is of course the ability to see interacting systems – a kind of meta-systemic thinking – and this is what I think Kay is really interested in, because it’s what he does. At one point he showed a slide of multiple systems–the human body, the environment, the internet, and he said in a kind of aside, “they’re all one system . . .”
  • The point is to be able to see connections between the silos. Says Kay, the liberal arts have done a bad job at “adding in epistemology” among the “smokestacks” (i.e. disciplines)
  • What happens when you’re stuck in a system? You don’t understand the world and yourself and others as existing in constant development, as being in process; you think you are a fixed essence or part within a system (instead of a system influencing systems) and you inadvertently trap yourself in a kind of tautological loop where you can only think about things you’re thinking about and do the things you do and you thus limit yourself to a kind of non-nutritive regurgitation of factoids, or the robotic meaningless actions of an automaton, or what Kay calls living in a pop culture
  • A downside of being epistemologically limited to thinking within a system is that you overemphasize the importance of the content and facts as that system orders them
Martin Burrett

3D Maze Designer - 10 views

www.purplemash.com/...2diy3d

maze games game builder

shared by Martin Burrett on 11 May 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 May 12
     
    Make simple maze games with this useful resource. Add your own textures and pictures into your games. Discovered via @tishylishy. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Martin Burrett

Pora Ora : The Online 3D Educational Game for Children - 13 views

www.poraora.com/home.html

games English maths virtual environment collaboration

shared by Martin Burrett on 27 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 27 Dec 11
     
    This is a MUST TRY site. It's not often that I'm amazed be an educational resource, but I am with this one. Pora Ora is a stunning educational virtual world for Primary school aged students. Play truely fun educational games which practise skills in English, maths and many other subjects. The graphics and useably is superb. Online safety is at the heart of this site. The parential admin account can set the student's account to free chat with everyone to completely locked down where they have the world to themselves and everything in between. The site has a language filter and users can report any incidents of trouble. Also, the first task requires the user to complete an online safety task. The site is free with a few premium features coming out later. You have got to try this one! http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools
Toni Olivieri-Barton

Sistine Chapel - 24 views

www.vatican.va/...index.html

vatican sistine virtual 3d chapel sistine chapel Renaissance tour history art

shared by Toni Olivieri-Barton on 12 Feb 12 - Cached
  • Toni Olivieri-Barton on 12 Feb 12
     
    A friend went to Rome for Chinese New Year and I remember seeing this amazing site years ago. Great one to show for art teachers
carlos villalobos

Free CAD software * for your DWG files: DraftSight - Dassault Systèmes - 6 views

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shared by carlos villalobos on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • carlos villalobos on 20 Oct 10
     
    DraftSight: Free CAD software * for your DWG files Your software. Your vision. Your community. Free CAD software* available for Windows® and Mac®.  A new 2D CAD product that provides professional CAD users, students and educators with a better way to create, edit and view DWG files.
yc c

Phun - 2D physics sandbox - Home - 0 views

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3d physics game create education

shared by yc c on 12 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 12 Nov 08
     
    Phun is a free game like 2D physics sandbox where you can play with physics like never before.
  • yc c on 02 May 09
     
    Phun is a free game like 2D physics sandbox where you can play with physics like never before. The playful synergy of science and art is novel, and makes Phun as educational as it is entertaining. Great for kids Phun is a fantastic toy for children, where they can learn and appreciate physics, science and simulations in an open ended gameplay with rich creative and artistic freedom, including colorful freehand drawing. and everyone else... But watch out, Phun is also totally addictive to the rest of us! Experienced users create fabulous machines and elaborate mechanism using Phun, as well as games, comics and contemporary art. See more of Phun in the media section, or go download it! ...and for free! We want to keep Phun freely available for non-commercial use, since we think and hope that Phun can make a difference in promoting science and art to the masses, in particular children and young people, through a constructionists learning paradigm. Contact us for sponsorship agreements, or for commercial licenses of Phun. We are also open to R&D collaboration, including pedagogic use of Phun.
Carla Arena

TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world - 0 views

twittearth.com

3d earth mashup twittearth twitter twitts visualization

shared by Carla Arena on 23 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Carla Arena on 23 Apr 08
     
    Interesting visual app for Twitter.
Art Gelwicks

SmallWorlds - 0 views

www.smallworlds.com

virtual worlds

shared by Art Gelwicks on 21 May 08 - Cached
  • SmallWorlds is a 3D virtual world that runs inside your web browser. It enables you to build your own room, house, or even your own world, and fill it with a wide variety of items and fun activities.
  • Art Gelwicks on 21 May 08
     
    Another virtual world space. Think "Second Life" meets "IMVU" meets "Wii Miis". I wonder what a classroom would look like here?
Marie Coleman

Memory - Mapping Memory 3D Interactive - National Geographic Magazine - 1 views

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shared by Marie Coleman on 29 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Marie Coleman on 29 Mar 08
     
    Visuals of brain and memory functions/dysfunctions
Jeremy Davis

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www.xtranormal.com

animation web2.0 tools moviemaking xtranormal text to speech 3d

shared by Jeremy Davis on 07 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Jeremy Davis on 07 Feb 09
     
    Movie making with text - GREAT
Kelly O

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth - 0 views

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3d graphics microsoft photography photos photosynth software visualization

shared by Kelly O on 11 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Kelly O on 11 Aug 08
     
    Photosynth software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates to the next.
Nelly Cardinale

3DTextMaker.com - Create Free 3D text Banners for Your Web Pages! - 0 views

www.3dtextmaker.com/image_editor.html

graphics banner 3dtextmaker

shared by Nelly Cardinale on 27 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Nelly Cardinale on 27 Feb 09
     
    Free online 3 D banner creator for Websites
Michael Walker

Alice.org - 13 views

alice.org

Alice Sun Microsystems 3D Modeling

shared by Michael Walker on 03 May 10 - Cached
  • Michael Walker on 03 May 10
     
    Alex Galt shared this site for her students during May Term. Looks very good!
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