Misc

The Centipede's Dilemma

A centipede was happy quite, until a toad in fun 
Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?" 
This raised her doubts to such a pitch 
She fell distracted in the ditch 
Not knowing how to run.

Medium

A medium as a "site of experience" (Cassetti); Eric Hu, Jonathan Blow, Ethan Marcotte, Marshall McLuhan

Carl Jung

What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Herein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.

Dumbledore

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.

Practice Reviews

(WIP) 
monument valley, rsanimate, motas, memrise, codecademy, a dark room, the witness, kahoot, the stanley parable, flexbox defense

Metaphors, mathematics & the imagination

Roger Antonsen, logikkprofessor på UiO: TEDxOslo talk: communicate science differently, inspire creative thinking, and remove the common misconceptions about mathematics and computer science

Mythology

Myths as expressions for understanding general psychological, cultural, or sociatel truths; they explain nature, often personifying natural phenomena; give moral and practical lessons, etc

21st century education

The meaning of knowing today has shifted from being able to recall and repeat information to being able to find it, evaluate it and use it compellingly at the right time and in the right context.

Our children are living in the most intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth.

Sir Ken Robinson, Institute of Play, Quest to Learn, P21 framework

History of computable knowledge

Ramon Llull and the Ars Magna, the Library of Babel, the Mundaneum, Vannevar Bush and the MEMEX, Wolfram Alpha 

Instructional design

"learning design"; the practice of creating instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing

Carlo Rovelli

Undistracted by schooling, one studies best during vacations.

Indistinguishable from magic

When Aleister Crowley defined magic as “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will,” he might as easily have been describing technology. In fact, “magic” is still the word we use to encompass the wonders of a new technology before it becomes ubiquitous. (more)

Witchcraft

old english: wiccecræft
wicce (witch) cræft (craft)