So this is a pre-post, I’ll put more here when I finish the reading, but I wanted to make a quick communication to my classmates: bring your ipad today get the free app: SpaceTeam Composite case studies/characters?!
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Summary In my presentation, “Computational Thinking: What are the Fundamentals?” I give my definition of Computational Thinking and review very limited prior work (this is but one talk in a semester-long seminar about CT, in which we review much more of the literature): Paving the Way For Computational Thinking Maybe Not Everybody Should Learn to… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingThis week’s reading in the New Media Faculty Seminar: Awakening the Digital Imagination, is from Bob Viola’s “Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space.” I found the excerpt a bit challenging to comprehend as a whole, but I did pull out several points of interest and intersections with my current classes, work, or interests. This… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingDid y’all know that Alan Kay (like a few other of our authors for this semester) is a Turing Award winner?! I got to see him and Hal Abelson at the computer science education conference in Raleigh a few years ago (2012). Anyways, I like Alan Kay, and this reading. Some points: (p. 2/394) They… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingReading from Engelbart’s, Augmenting Human Intellect, for this week’s seminar, I’m reflecting on my own research group’s current thinking. Consider the following summary of a grant we were just awarded (before the shutdown!) from NSF, “In a short period of time, computerization has moved from providing a counterpoint to life, with the potential to highlight… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingEngelbart’s 1968 “Mother of all Demos” of an MVC system including real-time collaboration over a network (pre-dating the Internet) is just incredible, always an inspiring watch. I’m excited to continue our discussions in the New Media Faculty Seminar: Awakening the Digital Imagination. The very beginning included the “call and response of fantasist and engineer, philosopher… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingAssignment Description For my class this semester on Computational Thinking, (a bit more theoretical than my class last fall, which was more application-based) our first assignment was to thinking about elements I find/believe central to the definition of computational thinking. Find below my homework and the aggregated list of my classmates’ suggestions. Necessary Elements of… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readingmemos
2 kinds:
short memos in the field
longer memos written during analysis
data can go into memos, but memos should not go into data, keep the data separate and pure.
Continue readinghave a list of research questions on your mind, memorized, revisited, thought out, and otherwise belabored interview for 1 hour at a time (per participant) ask for permission to contact them again record audio have a clock or timer or something where you can see it discreetly consider writing a protocol that might include specific… Read the rest of this post here.
Continue readinglots of data iterations out there Analysis * go through the data * line by lines –> paragraph * categorize (interpreted form of the data [our observations of things of interest in raw data {transcripts}]) * axial coding (core idea as a case study) * categories and subcategories * triangulation of data * concept map… Read the rest of this post here.
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