http://www.justmusing.net/2007/10/12/choices/ Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.justmusing.net/2007/10/12/choices/comment-page-1/#comment-93 Gardner Writes » Blog Archive » Understanding the Tools Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:49:27 +0000 http://www.justmusing.net/?p=60#comment-93 [...] So the insight? I was telling Tom that there was only a little bit more I wanted my students to know about their iPods, just enough that they wouldn’t think it was a magic box on which music resided and simply issued forth at the press of a button. (It occurs to me that I had echoes in my mind of Arthur C. Clarke’s famous observation about sufficiently advanced technologies seeming like magic, an observation that I was reminded of recently in a podcast featuring Rodney Brooks. But yes, I digress.) I wanted my students to know that there was a spinning disc in there, and that someone had decided to make the menu this way instead of that way, and so forth. Clearly I was working on the same ideas I’d elaborated in my digital imagination talk at JMU, and that I’d talked over with Alice and she’d taken up in her blog post here. [...] [...] So the insight? I was telling Tom that there was only a little bit more I wanted my students to know about their iPods, just enough that they wouldn’t think it was a magic box on which music resided and simply issued forth at the press of a button. (It occurs to me that I had echoes in my mind of Arthur C. Clarke’s famous observation about sufficiently advanced technologies seeming like magic, an observation that I was reminded of recently in a podcast featuring Rodney Brooks. But yes, I digress.) I wanted my students to know that there was a spinning disc in there, and that someone had decided to make the menu this way instead of that way, and so forth. Clearly I was working on the same ideas I’d elaborated in my digital imagination talk at JMU, and that I’d talked over with Alice and she’d taken up in her blog post here. [...]

]]> http://www.justmusing.net/2007/10/12/choices/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Dad Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:48:50 +0000 http://www.justmusing.net/?p=60#comment-92 Interesting what an impression teenagers can have on us mature people. We never cease to learn if we are willing. Interesting what an impression teenagers can have on us mature people. We never cease to learn if we are willing.

]]> http://www.justmusing.net/2007/10/12/choices/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Ellen Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:51:44 +0000 http://www.justmusing.net/?p=60#comment-91 Excellent analogy. I recall a story in which President Woodrow Wilson was asked how long it would take to prepare for a 5 minute speech, and he replied something about how many hours and even days he would need. The question poser was aghast and asked, "Then how long do you need to get ready to speak for a half hour?" and Wilson replied, "I'm ready to start right now!" Excellent analogy. I recall a story in which President Woodrow Wilson was asked how long it would take to prepare for a 5 minute speech, and he replied something about how many hours and even days he would need. The question poser was aghast and asked, “Then how long do you need to get ready to speak for a half hour?” and Wilson replied, “I’m ready to start right now!”

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