Comments on: On Web Thinking

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:23:59 +0000

It shall be very much like ds196 in structure and openness, and likely, an assignment bank.

Anything proximal to programming will be JS, likely doing things with jQuery and other JavaScript APIs.

I’ll be begging for ideas, stay tuned

By: John

John — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:56:54 +0000

The Tinkertoy idea reminds me of HyperCard which popped up in my feed reader today yet again.
I love the sound of your new course, ( hope you will allow ds106 stylee drivebys).
I wonder the possibilities of JavaScript Legos that could join up to make new things.

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By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:10:23 +0000

Please sit more with it Scott, your ideas are resonating.

Your comment reminded me of the forgotten to blog bit of discussion at the bar; how we cannot teach this concepts by talking/writing about them, that the web thinking/learning happens in the act of doing.

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:57:11 +0000

I’ve been enjoying the links lately from you and Gardner (and Jon) on “web thinking” (and was reminded by this post that an admiration of Udell’s work was another connection I shared with Gardner when Brian introduced us).

I like the “Awakened Grains of Sand” piece because it points to half of the change the network/digital confronts us with, to our “innate” sense of space/objects. The other half is our “innate” sense of time. I say “innate” because it is something that is now part of us, physiologically, and yet its clearly something that was developed through contact with our physical/temporal environment and can _possibly_ change. This is a slight tension I have with the “web/computational thinking” piece – obviously we can and do abstract these attributes, but I think we need to avoid the mistake of thinking that talking about them is then how people will learn them. I’m not accusing you or Jon or Gardner of making this mistake, I’m just hesitant in this reification. I’m not being very coherent here, but there’s some hesitation this is stirring in me. I need to sit with it some more. Cheers, Scott

By: Michael Branson Smith

Michael Branson Smith — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:10:03 +0000

Thanks for this one Alan, it’s great to hear that you are working on a class along these lines of ‘web thinking.’ And I’m interested to see the alternative approach to the idea that you ‘must be a programmer’ to do this.