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An Infantryman Learns To Code - Inside DigitalOcean - Medium - 2 views

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programming computationalthinking compthink weekly thoughtvectors

shared by Tom Woodward on 14 Mar 16 - No Cached

Tom Woodward on 14 Mar 16

I wonder how often this opportunity is there but the person isn't . . . seems like the very definition of computational thinking. "In the end, the tool was very crude but accomplished something very useful: It had a flow that ensured all the reports required by people on the ground, and above, were sent in a timely and orderly manner. Each step of that flow was almost entirely automated. Each button filled a template and put the text in the clipboard for copy-pasting in the chat. Events were timed automatically. Distances and time of travel were computed automatically. A dropdown menu facilitated entering common values. Big warning signs were visible when a time critical step was ongoing, or some important data was missing."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I wonder how often this opportunity is there but the person isn't . . . seems like the very definition of computational thinking. "In the end, the tool was very crude but accomplished something very useful: It had a flow that ensured all the reports required by people on the ground, and above, were sent in a timely and orderly manner. Each step of that flow was almost entirely automated. Each button filled a template and put the text in the clipboard for copy-pasting in the chat. Events were timed automatically. Distances and time of travel were computed automatically. A dropdown menu facilitated entering common values. Big warning signs were visible when a time critical step was ongoing, or some important data was missing."</div>

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M.I.T.'s Alex Pentland: Measuring Idea Flows to Accelerate Innovation - NYTimes.com - N... - 3 views

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shared by Jonathan Becker on 21 Apr 14 - No Cached

There She Blows! Reading in a Participatory Culture and Flows of Reading Launch Today - 0 views

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Participatory Culture**Digital Media**Literacy

shared by Joan Rhodes on 06 Jan 15 - No Cached

Joan Rhodes on 06 Jan 15

This is Henry Jenkin's official weblog. I mentioned his book in my post on his newest book.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is Henry Jenkin's official weblog. I mentioned his book in my post on his newest book.</div>

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Ted Nelson at Mid-term | Hosna - 0 views

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shared by Tom Woodward on 23 Oct 15 - No Cached

Tom Woodward on 23 Oct 15

"Nelson goes on to say that "Education ought to be clear, inviting and enjoyable, without booby-traps, humiliations, condescension or boredom. It ought to teach and reward initiative, curiosity, the habit of self-motivation, intellectual involvement." This reminded of this course. So far I can honestly say that I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. Many of my previous online courses were extremely repetitive and the assignments were very bland. We did the same thing over and over again every week. Read the article and write a post about it. We are taught to question things in this course. We are pushed to be creative and research topics that we cannot find easy answers to. We are not punished for our opinions, rather rewarded for getting our creative juices flowing. One of my favorite assignments was the one where we had to search a question that we already knew the answer to. I had no idea that my question about the S on superman's chest would lead to gender equality. It taught me to always take a deeper look. This course is the kind of course Nelson was talking about. It's unique, and definitely meets his criteria." h/t Jon

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Nelson goes on to say that "Education ought to be clear, inviting and enjoyable, without booby-traps, humiliations, condescension or boredom. It ought to teach and reward initiative, curiosity, the habit of self-motivation, intellectual involvement." This reminded of this course. So far I can honestly say that I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. Many of my previous online courses were extremely repetitive and the assignments were very bland. We did the same thing over and over again every week. Read the article and write a post about it. We are taught to question things in this course. We are pushed to be creative and research topics that we cannot find easy answers to. We are not punished for our opinions, rather rewarded for getting our creative juices flowing. One of my favorite assignments was the one where we had to search a question that we already knew the answer to. I had no idea that my question about the S on superman's chest would lead to gender equality. It taught me to always take a deeper look. This course is the kind of course Nelson was talking about. It's unique, and definitely meets his criteria." h/t Jon</div>

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Why I Unfollowed You on Instagram - Medium - 0 views

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data feed interest information flow weekly

shared by Tom Woodward on 19 Oct 15 - No Cached

Tom Woodward on 19 Oct 15

Not sure I agree with all of this but these are things I think about.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Not sure I agree with all of this but these are things I think about. </div>

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Your personal networks visualized as microbiological cells in Biologic - 1 views

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dataviz

shared by sanamuah on 02 Mar 15 - No Cached

Data exists in digital form, on our computers and spreadsheets, but the exciting part about data is what it represents in the real world. Bits are people, places, and things. This is especially true with social data from places like Twitter and Facebook, where ideas flow and people talk to interact with each other in different ways. It's not just retweets and likes. Bloom Studio, the folks who brought you Planetary, embrace this idea in their just released iPad app, Biologic.
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