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Need for a humility based worldview
I’ve been reading a book that seems to have flown so far under the radar it has largely sunk without a trace, which is a shame as its message could be a game changer. In The Virtues of Ignorance Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (with many contributors from a research camp) argue that a […]
John Wilson Promenade Open Day
August 24, 2010
John Wilson Promenade Open Day Originally uploaded by Samuel Mann On Sunday we walked along one of our favourite places – John Wilson Drive. The place was full with families walking alongside bikes, trikes, wheelchairs, rollerskates, skateboarders, a horse, and yes, a familiar eight year old on a unicycle (full flickr set). The open day […]
Desire unmatched by skills equals disempowerment for computing students
July 20, 2010
At the CITRENZ conference last week Dobrila and Mike Lopez presented an interesting paper on sustainability worldviews of incoming students at Manukau Institute of Technology (pdf). Their paper aimed to replicate our study of Otago Polytechnic students (summarised in post “Can’t rely on geeks” here, from original paper). This replication aimed to cement the generalisability […]
Twin chalk towers
July 10, 2010
It’s the school holidays and there’s Kids on Campus. It’s great to see them tearing all over campus having a ball. The oldest of these kids is perhaps 12, which makes them perhaps 2-3 in 2001. So, this lunchtime chalk drawing caught my eye. Robot Love and Twin Towers in chalk In the foreground of […]
Computing is ubiquitous, but experiences are design-led
July 1, 2010
Knuth described the “art of programming”, but the relationship between art and code is somewhat uneasy. For many years we have seen papers at conferences making excuses for computing students’ inabilities when it comes to design. Those of us who teach computing have all sat through assessments where students show us something functional but truly […]
Computing for Sustainability 
September 8, 2010
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