Charlie Gedeon
@charliegedeon
Reflecting on how learning and creativity are shaped by technology and our interactions with it. Co-founder of Pragmatics Studio, a small digital design studio in Montreal.
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An asset-based approach to teaching asks, “What ideas do these students have ?” rather than “What ideas do these students lack?”
Dan Meyer • Is Asset-Based AI Even Possible?
Learning Effectively: Science, Insights and Techniques
The interaction themes and interactions that describe how we create understanding information.
Foraging: Locating resources that will lead to understanding
Tuning: Adjusting resources to align with desired understanding
Externalizing: Moving resources out of the head and into the world
Constructing: Forming new knowledge structures in the world
From the Chapter 11 excerpt of Stephen P. Anderson’s incredible design book, Figure It Out.
Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the... See more
Kevin Kelly • Scenius, or Communal Genius
A mentor who doesn’t frequently say 'I don’t know' needs to be replaced.
Paul Venuto • feed updates
How to Motivate Kids to Practice Hard Things
greatergood.berkeley.edu
How can we know whether a conceptual metaphor is doing what we want of it? What features do good alternative conceptual metaphors have in common? How can we successfully dismantle the foundational metaphor of a concept? Some harmful metaphors will be harder to free ourselves from than others; however, the most important first step is to be aware... See more
Benjamin Santos Genta • How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think | Aeon Essays
A sad irony is that the same cognitive bias that makes people ascribe humanity to GPT-3 can cause them to treat actual humans in inhumane ways. Sociocultural linguistics – the study of language in its social and cultural context – shows that assuming an overly tight link between fluent expression and fluent thinking can lead to bias against people... See more
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) • Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am
totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
totally dependent on them for my life and well being.
Put Something Back | Steve Jobs Archive
What the humans like is responsiveness - by Sasha Chapin What the humans like is responsiveness
Sasha Chapinsashachapin.substack.comRemarks about where beauty can come from beyond the surface.
A frictionless, unresponsive life is simply not a human one—we are born troublemakers who need to make marks.