Of children, cultural differences, and computers
[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- kids, computers, creativity and games ] . . It’s quite a triumphant story, with African kids in the foreground and Nicholas Negroponte and MIT playing the role of proud parents pushing them forward from behind… With 100 million first-grade-aged children worldwide having no access to schooling, the One Laptop Per [...]
Steven Pinker on Analogy
[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- importance of analogy as an under-developed cognitive skill ] . There was a interview with five prominent “science writers” in the Guardian a few days back, titled Science writing: how do you make complex issues accessible and readable? and one of the writers, Steven Pinker, makes two highly interesting observations: [...]
Sembl, the game of resemblance: presentation to NDF2012
This post is a web translation of my presentation to the National Digital Forum, Wellington, NZ, on 20 November 2012. (Video recording is here.) Hello, people. Thank you for having me on this land and at this forum. I’m utterly thrilled to be here – among you all – to talk about this project. In [...]
Sembl @ NDF2012
So I remember what people said, I’ve compiled tweets about my presentation on Sembl to the National Digital Forum in Wellington on 20 November 2012. It starts with announcements and descriptions… Sembl – explore the world thru resemblance #ndf2012 — Mike White (@AstronomyMike) 6 days ago http://Sembl.net #ndf2012 — Mike White (@AstronomyMike) 6 days ago [...]
Introducing… The Museum Game
Introducing… The Museum Game – a video introduction, curriculum links, and a booking form :)
Form is insight: a musical experiment
[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- here's a musical experiment from the book / project i seem to be writing, which offers a grand slam intro to contemplative and artistic approaches to creative thinking, and hence a fresh angle on intelligence ] It looks very much as though I’ve been beginning to write parts of let’s [...]
Form is Insight: the project
[ cross-posted from Zenpundit -- about the book (or post-book project) i seem to be writing -- based on Sembl thinking -- which offers a grand slam intro to an array of box-free contemplative and artistic approaches to creative thinking, and hence opens fresh angles on intelligence ] . One thing I can promise: whatever [...]
A triptych for Jane McGonigal
[ Cross-posted from Zenpundit -- on play, games, vertigo and koan -- technically this is a ludibrium, a jeu, a jest -- a dervish whirl for the mind ] . I’m joining the conversation Jane McGonigal is leading over on Big Questions Online — our topic is How Might Video Games Be Good for Us? [...]
On Super Mario Brothers and mental parcours games
According to 25 Years of Super Mario Bros: A Look Back Through Mushroom Kingdom History, from which I grabbed the Mario Bros portion of the graphic at the foot of this page, “Since 1985’s release of the second-most selling console game of all-time, over 200 Nintendo titles have featured the eponymous Mario Bros” — on [...]
Hosts get into The Museum Game
News in (very) brief of our progress in developing The Museum Game for a beta release next month.
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