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Anecdotes like yours are one of the main reasons I read HN. Thanks for sharing. Now back to the subject of the thread, kudos to the author. Every time I try co
by bonobo 14y ago
Anecdotes like yours are one of the main reasons I read HN. Thanks for sharing.
Now back to the subject of the thread, kudos to the author. Every time I try conveying an idea into a poem I get stuck on the sounds of the words; it's rather hard to me to find the right rhymes, especially since English is not my native language and I'm used to read far more than to listen to it.
And back to another side note, I stumbled upon this writing by Joe Davis called Telescopic Text [1] a few years ago, and loved it. He also built a tool [2] to aid writing texts on the same format and, though I never managed to finish a text myself, I found the tool rather amusing too.
[1] http://www.telescopictext.com/ http://www.telescopictext.com/
[2] http://www.telescopictext.org/ http://www.telescopictext.org/
- kerneis 14y agoIf you like this kind of anecdotes, you should read "Mindstorms" by Seymour Papert. It's more about maths than writing, but it's filled with examples showing how the fact that computers allow children to make mistakes, and then fix them, changes deeply the way to teach.
- adrianhoward 14y agoAnecdotes like yours are one of the main reasons I read HN. Thanks for sharing. Y'welcome. Have another from the same session of teacher training. It's one I trot out while wearing my UX hat when folk talk about 'intuitive' interfaces. This was late eighties remember. In the UK too. Mice were not common. Almost everybody we put down in front of one had problems initially. This was often the first time these folk had been in front of a computer - let alone one with a mouse. In one case I had to take the mouse apart (look here's this ball - it moves against these rollers - they send the x/y changes to the computer, that moves the little arrow on the screen) before the teacher 'got it'. Intuitive? Ain't no such thing ;-)