b-man

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Tools for Conviviality(opencollector.org)
1 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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To Hell with Good Intentions (swaraj.org)
3 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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by b-man 17y ago
The misconception is about education itself, and not just CS. There is an overconfidence in instructionist educational systems(which means, an overemphasis in teaching), as opposed to a focus on learning. Learning can take many, many forms,
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by b-man 17y ago
But you can't open source anytime :)
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God vs. Science(time.com)
3 points by b-man 17y ago|7 comments
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What Questions Can Science Answer?(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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Warren Sturgis McCulloch television interview(cyberneticians.com)
2 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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Design Principles Behind Smalltalk(cs.virginia.edu)
1 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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Object Orientation (and other poorly understood idioms) (blog.dloh.org)
17 points by b-man 17y ago|10 comments
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by b-man 17y ago
Sorry man, but I completely disagree with your assumption that this is being tried everywhere in the US. Perhaps what is being tried in some places is scientific approach to teaching, but never to learning. Plus, it is also a problem of par
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by b-man 17y ago
The framework he's talking about is mostly guided to education withing the current scientific establishment. But if you look deeper, he's providing a great framework for all mass education, whenever it is scientific or any other. Btw, just
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Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science Education?(scientificblogging.com)
16 points by b-man 17y ago|7 comments
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by b-man 17y ago
I don't think the journalist did a good job when he took his conclusions as: "Depression may turn out to be an inevitable price of living in a dynamic society." That amounts to, Hey, we are doing something that hurt us as a society, but wha
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by b-man 17y ago
Just a question, does anyone know how to download these videos to watch offline?
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by b-man 17y ago
May I suggest a couple of books? How to Solve It by George Pólya's 1945 http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Aspect-Mathematical-Method/d... and The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Learning to Learn by Richard W.Hamming http://www.am
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by b-man 17y ago
I think it is funny that the guy went and said something correct like this: "In an ideal world, high-level languages like Python would replace all other programming languages." That includes smalltalk, scheme, clisp, and every marvelous lan
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Microelectronics and the personal computer by Alan Kay(guidebookgallery.org)
9 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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by b-man 17y ago
If you want an advice, read Seymour Papert's articles and books ( http://www.papert.org/works.html , also take a look at http://learning.media.mit.edu/content/publications/EA.Piaget... ) Papert's style is very accessible, and he was, at le
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Debate featuring Milton Friedman, John Mackey, and T.J. Rodgers(reason.com)
2 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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[pdf]Emergent Design and learning environments: Building on indigenous knowledge(web.media.mit.edu)
3 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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by b-man 17y ago
I take a libertarian stance on that too man. But I also follow a pluralist approach on how people organize their own systems, so if people want to trust the government (specially in very miserable and risk intense areas I do believe the gov
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Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming"(userpage.fu-berlin.de)
8 points by b-man 17y ago|0 comments
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by b-man 17y ago
That's exactly the point of constructionism (the epistemological school that the article's author subscribe to). The objective of the educational system is to form citizens capable of critical thinking and independence, something that a sol
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Symbolic Programming Vs. the A.P. Curriculum(el.media.mit.edu)
18 points by b-man 17y ago|5 comments