Yes that must be disappointing if 'The House of Tomorrow' didn't convey or do justice to the content of his work.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:50 AM kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:28 AM C. Cossé <cco...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Kirby, >> >> I think kids should write their own plotting routines to graph their >> functions starting anywhere 3rd-7th grade. >> >> > If they wish to, yes, so many optional branches. > > I'm coasting along using everyday office productivity tools that make use > of code, scripts, nevertheless. > > But since when in school does a kid get an office, a place to focus on > anything like coding? > > In math class, you get a tiny desk, rows and columns, book open. > > The calculator is designed to fit on that desk, and be a part of that > whole dynamic. > > Very cramped ergonomics. I question the ethics (= aesthetics). The > status quo has grown stale. > > In one lesson developing a simple solar system in pygame, for example, you >> can teach everything from the meaning of pi, periodic motion, dynamic >> graphics, orders of magnitude, scaling, OOP, ... all kinds of stuff. AND >> basically lay the ground-work for developing their own 2D plotting >> software. >> >> -Charlie >> > > > Yes, that's one way to teach that stuff. I'm for continuing to curate > content for the various audiences. Some students love Coding Train and I > can see why. I've spent some hours with it myself. Lots of great teachers > out there! > > My current project (from whence that calculator page) is a take-off on the > movie 'The House of Tomorrow' wherein the star kid is being raised by his > Nana to be the next Buckminster Fuller. > > Of course I'm intrigued, given RBF and Ludwig Wittgenstein (LW) were two > philosophers I've seriously studied. We all have our hobbies, right? > > However, as usual with a fictional work, or even with most documentaries > on the guy (not all): there's zero attention given the actual substance > i.e. the "whole number volumes table" (a meme). > > In a 90 minute drama based on a fictional work, there's no time to look at > an actual curriculum (our star is home schooled, but what is he learning? > -- we have no clue, nice dome though -- tourists come check it out, set in > the pre-internet era). > > 'The School of Tomorrow' is my Github repo designed to provide this > missing puzzle piece, and add back the missing realism. [1] > > I explain it all on the videos. > > Kirby > > [1] https://youtu.be/UpEJysjcLBY (recounting the genesis of the project) > > > -- ccosse.github.io
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