Comments on: What’s the Pattern? (Kenneth?) http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alan Levine aka CogDog http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58549 Alan Levine aka CogDog Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:40:29 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58549 @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. @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.

]]> By: Leslie M-B http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58547 Leslie M-B Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:04:10 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58547 Sorry about all my typos in the comment--it's late here. But my question is a genuine one. Sorry about all my typos in the comment–it’s late here. But my question is a genuine one.

]]> By: Leslie M-B http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58546 Leslie M-B Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:03:19 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58546 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? 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?

]]> By: Darren Kuropatwa http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58471 Darren Kuropatwa Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:46:02 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58471 I was thinking the same thing, then again someone might get creative with "place value." I was thinking the same thing, then again someone might get creative with “place value.”

]]> By: Alan Levine aka CogDog http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58469 Alan Levine aka CogDog Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:01:58 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58469 @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?? @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??

]]> By: Darren Kuropatwa http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58452 Darren Kuropatwa Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:33:39 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58452 A response, not a video, but a response nonetheless: http://tinyurl.com/9rwnvm A response, not a video, but a response nonetheless: http://tinyurl.com/9rwnvm

]]> By: Alan Levine aka CogDog http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58442 Alan Levine aka CogDog Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:30:11 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58442 @Darren Kuropatwa: That was my hope ;-) Of course, for finding the pattern, you have an advantage... @Darren Kuropatwa: That was my hope ;-) Of course, for finding the pattern, you have an advantage…

]]> By: Darren Kuropatwa http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58439 Darren Kuropatwa Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:23:54 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58439 Should have watched the whole vid first. What comes of this will definitely be used in my classes though. Thanks for starting it Alan! Should have watched the whole vid first. What comes of this will definitely be used in my classes though. Thanks for starting it Alan!

]]> By: Darren Kuropatwa http://cogdogblog.com/2009/01/04/whats-the-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-58438 Darren Kuropatwa Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:20:12 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=3213#comment-58438 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. 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.

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