An overlooked part of blogging is reflection. Last month, I saw Meg Ryan. I’m sure some other stuff happened, too.
Wave: A Concept for Remote Social Swimming
Small pools rigged with sensors interpret water-based interaction and spark ambient cues to encourage you to swim when others enter their pools.
World of Codecraft
My first programming class had some difficulties. Inspired by Lee Sheldon’s experiment in early 2010, I am now trying to apply multiplayer game dynamics on the course plan to teach Processing to undergraduates.
Co-Creating Education
There is a disconnection between goals for the learning environment and implementation. Everyone wants the classroom to be a place where students are engaged. Jerome Bruner once argued that we should create an atmosphere where students can “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment, but as information.” As theorist and feminist Nel Noddings put it: “There should be no penalty for getting things wrong.” Yet every grade inherently does just that.