What’s the Pattern? (Kenneth?)
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this January 4th, 2009 1:00 pm
http://cogdogblog.com/3213
A little experiment- not looking to see who can name the pattern (that is easy).
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January 4th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Hard to resist but I will let someone else reveal the name of the sequence. For it begs our nearly astute conscious collaborative interest.
Then again, I may just be talking out of my hat.
January 4th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Should have watched the whole vid first. What comes of this will definitely be used in my classes though. Thanks for starting it Alan!
January 4th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
@Darren Kuropatwa: That was my hope
Of course, for finding the pattern, you have an advantage…
January 5th, 2009 at 1:33 am
A response, not a video, but a response nonetheless: http://tinyurl.com/9rwnvm
January 5th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
@Darren Kuropatwa: Oh this so rocks, very clever, and likely more approachable to do than creating video. Wonder how much past slide 13 one can really go??
January 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I was thinking the same thing, then again someone might get creative with “place value.”
January 12th, 2009 at 12:03 am
What’s fascinating about this is when humans try to represent this pattern in the ways you and Darren have done, things get unwieldy quickly. Yet nature–in shells, pinecones, sunflowers, whatever else it is that’s build on that sequence that we’re apparently not naming here–things build organically and get increasingly elegant. How can that concept be translated into learning technologies?
January 12th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Sorry about all my typos in the comment–it’s late here. But my question is a genuine one.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:40 am
@Leslie M-B: That’s a challenging question, indeed! But I think there is a difference between the growth patterns that follow the formula (and maybe not going too far out on the extremes where things grow very lareg) and trying to represent them using different media.
I would say the elegance might come in the creative ways people express it. Darren took it one way, and Jennifer W, who replied in video, tried another. It takes a lot of work to make the complex simpler; my own video was just a rushed attempt to find all the things that might fit, and shows it.