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Tumblelog byChristopher Clay, founder of Soup.io.
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Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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April 16 2012
“ Es hat ja noch gar keiner unter wirtschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten ausgerechnet, was das später einmal alles kostet, wenn ein einzelner, mutlos gewordener Mathematiklehrer es fertigbringt, jedes Jahr zwanzig Schülern die Lust an Mathe zu versauen. ... Da ist auf einmal etwas kaputtgegangen, was möglicherweise die gesamte Karriere und Entwicklung eines Kindes belastet. Wenn man diese Kosten alle zusammenrechnet, könnte herauskommen, dass es besser wäre, diesen betreffenden Lehrer bei vollen Bezügen nach Hause zu schicken, als ihn noch einen Tag länger diesen Schaden stiften zu lassen. ”— Gerald Hüther - derStandard.at › Bildung
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“ Im Hirn passiert immer erst dann etwas, wenn derjenige, der lernt, das für sich selbst als wichtig beurteilt. ... Es ist ein großes Missverständnis, zu denken, indem man dem anderen sagt, wie er's machen soll, könne man bei ihm im Hirn irgendeine Veränderung auslösen. So geht das nicht. ... [Unsere] Schule produziert lustlose Pflichterfüller. ”— Gerald Hüther - derStandard.at › Bildung
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March 18 2012
“ Most people are doomed in childhood by accepting the axiom that work = pain. Those who escape this are nearly all lured onto the rocks by prestige or money. How many even discover something they love to work on? A few hundred thousand, perhaps, out of billions. ”— Paul Graham: How to Do What You Love
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March 03 2012
February 06 2012
“ Self-esteem is central to learning: How you react to failure and your own progress (or lack thereof) defines the way you learn. Kids who are afraid of looking stupid, of being compared to their peers, and of having to work hard without the promise of success are the ones who are branded as lazy, unimaginative, or just 'stupid', when in fact they are just afraid of trying hard. ...— Khan Academy discussion @ Hacker News
Most of my students had no idea that math, like weightlifting, is supposed to hurt a bit. They thought that heavy, stretching sensation you get when you learn new concepts meant they were stupid, that they couldn't do math. They didn't realize that everyone feels that, if only briefly. If you're in the bottom third of the distribution, and a third of people are, you never get to the other side of that feeling before the class moves on.
The answer isn't magic teachers. It's for kids to learn that learning is possible. ...
[This is one of the advantages of] Khan Academy, [with] the ability for the student to replay the lesson over and over [on their own terms]. ”
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December 25 2011
“ Im Informationszeitalter ist nicht mehr Wissen Macht, sondern Zeit zu haben sich Wissen anzueignen. ”— fasel
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schlipsnerdDecember 08 2011
“ There is no simple relationship between what is taught and what is learnt. Meaning cannot simply be transferred to students. Students make their own meaning. ... What students manage to construct out of a lecture will depend on what they already know and can bring to bear in constructing new knowledge, and with what they are trying to do.— Twenty terrible reasons for lecturing (via @fin)
Lectur[es are] just about the least flexible resource students have. The lecturer cannot easily adjust to individuals' existing ways of seeing things, in the content, pace or manner of treatment of the content of the lecture. There is simply too little scope for the negotiation and construction of meaning for much development of understanding to take place. ”
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November 22 2011
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Alex Peake (as seen at 27) at Open Science Summit on some of humanity's worst investment decisions and how game coding is a gateway into hacking, hackerspaces, making and activism. He them demoes his project Code Hero, which seems to be coming along nicely!
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November 18 2011
"If our own hearts and curiosity led our [studies], we would be surrounded with very interesting, intelligent and self-sufficient adults ... I have hope that the internet will eventually take us there." This! See full comic.
November 16 2011
“ The act of discovery [is] not complete until [you have] taught [what you learned] to someone else. ”
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April 20 2011
February 03 2011
“ Consider for a moment how many adults you know in therapy, how many with estranged relationships with their families, distorted views of their personality or even more simply how many totally ill-equipped to interact with strangers with any level of confidence. The number of socially inept, emotionally off-balance adults I know far outweighs the number of adults I know who can’t read, or do basic math. ... How it is I know the capitals of states I’ve never been to or the mundane likely-fabricated life details of presidents who died hundreds of years ago but I don’t know for certain what the best way is to deal with someone who is sad?— Dallas Clayton”
Rarely if ever do our kids get to spend any substantial amount of time working on any sort of emotional development. ... If speech can be refined, vocabulary built, and language elevated what about a child’s emotional well being?I decided to test this theory, treating emotional building blocks the same way you might treat guitar lessons...
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December 25 2010
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Peter Purgathofer (@peterpur): The Radical Portfolio. "Actual learning is a collateral benefit of going to school or university" – and some steps he's taking towards fixing that. (via mamk)
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December 11 2010
To me, Noisebridge's Alex Peake is the prototypical hacker, and one of the most inspiring, driven people I've met. Here's his presentation on "What happens when we make machines that make us make them to make us them?".
It gets a little hard to follow his argumentative leaps near the end [and not just the end of that title!], but it's still a fascinating talk.
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October 16 2010
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RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
Good points:
- Schools use way too many outdated metaphors from the early days of industrialization.
- Segmenting students by age is a ridiculous idea, there are dozens of much more sensible criteria (This problem is much worse in Austria than in the US!)
- Kids today live in media-rich environments with lots of things vying for their attention. Educational style, presentation and content hasn't kept up, and kids are finding it hard to concentrate. What's our solution? Why, just drug these kids with Ritalin so they sit still while we give them the same old boring lectures...!
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nam3sOctober 04 2010
Sal Khan at Gel 2010 – if you haven't perused the Khan Academy video library, you should. Thank you, internet, for once again letting the whole world benefit from some enthusiastic person's charitable efforts in their bedroom.
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September 21 2010
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Ladytron sez: "How does it work? How does it work? You can figure out just how it works! Slow down, and you will find you can do it, if you use your mind!" ♥
(just wish the audio wasn't a little messed up in the clip...)
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Yo Gabba Gabba! is a kid's show that includes a segment called The Super Music Friends Show where indie bands like Enon (above), Of Montreal, Chromeo, Ladytron, The Shins, Mates of State, MGMT and others perform catchy educational or sometimes just silly songs. This one seems to have an odd sinister message ("March, march, robots!") :) Love the animation too!
July 22 2010
“ It’s not enough to simply take the smartest kids and make them smarter. What’s just as important is teaching these young people to seek out strangers, to resist the tug of self-similarity and homogenization. Diversity can seem like a such a vague and wishy-washy aspiration, but it comes with measurable benefits. To the extent our meritocratic institutions diminish our social diversity – are your college buddies just like you? – they might actually make us less likely to succeed. ”— The Secret of Successful Entrepreneurs | Wired.com
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February 13 2010
The goal of education and experience: To move things from the "shit you don't know you don't know" into the "shit you know you don't know" category (the "known unknowns", as Rumsfeld would put it).
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