Happy videos
for stressful times
Misc
Brutalist Websites
Binary Code and the I Ching
Magic in programming, Leibniz, etc
Web development
Spillnavn: Escape the Web! + spider symbolism, references
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.
Gamification
and what's wrong with it
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.
The World Wide Web as a virtual library
History of the WWW, the difference between the WWW and the Internet, vision behind the WWW project, the WWW virtual library, Web 2.0, etc
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
God games
+ sandbox, open world, simulation games
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)