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Marc Chun, a specialist in transformational education, will facilitate a two-day workshop designed for faculty to use their course content to expand critical thinking and problem solving in undergraduate courses
Brought a chess board to the Media Center without much thought as to whether it would 'take off' or not. I enjoy playing a bit online, but am very much a novice at the game. Sure enough a couple of students are playing and even capturing the attention of others! Perhaps we'll turn those spectators into participants - I'm convinced that interest in this game can play a more important role than winning or losing (as are others) - it can keep our minds honed for thinking. Lorenzo Walker campus, Naples, FL
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
This photograph is a response to Carol Van Hook's "Game is On" 365 Flickr Challenge for September 2009.
Marc Chun, a specialist in transformational education, will facilitate a two-day workshop designed for faculty to use their course content to expand critical thinking and problem solving in undergraduate courses
Three light bulbs.
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Dr Ravi Solanki and Raymond Siems, volunteers for the charity HEROES. In less than two days, their team turned an idea into a platform with genuine impact: creating a secure website to provide much-needed support for frontline NHS workers.
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Marc Chun, a specialist in transformational education, will facilitate a two-day workshop designed for faculty to use their course content to expand critical thinking and problem solving in undergraduate courses
Our son Adam Florin gave a fascinating talk about generative music at Algorithmic Art Assembly, hosted by Gray Area Art + Technology. He started with a quick demo of Patter, his music composition software, then took us on an illuminating journey through the many people and ideas which inspired him to create his cool freeform generative sequencer.
Brian Eno, who coined the phrase “generative music”, recently likened it to gardening -- but the material practice is just as much rooted in centuries of formal aesthetics, predictive statistics and industrial automation. How can we negotiate the tension between organic and and the mechanical in the algorithmic arts?
Adam has created some amazing digital tools and art exhibits in that space. It was great to hear what he's learned in this fascinating field, exploring the intersection of human and machine creativity. And to top it off, he gave this talk on his birthday, which was the best present of all!
Watch video highlights:
View more photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157677379327027
Learn about Patter:
adamflorin.work/projects/patter/
Learn about Algorithmic Arts:
#AlgorithmicArtAssembly #GrayArea
A sixth-grade student contemplates the meaning of her math lesson. Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages
Kindergarteners build a marble run inspired by a lesson about movement. **THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED TO REMOVE OR OBSCURE STUDENT IDENTITIES.** images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
Dr Ravi Solanki and Raymond Siems, volunteers for the charity HEROES. In less than two days, their team turned an idea into a platform with genuine impact: creating a secure website to provide much-needed support for frontline NHS workers.
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Dr Ravi Solanki and Raymond Siems, volunteers for the charity HEROES. In less than two days, their team turned an idea into a platform with genuine impact: creating a secure website to provide much-needed support for frontline NHS workers.
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Marc Chun, a specialist in transformational education, will facilitate a two-day workshop designed for faculty to use their course content to expand critical thinking and problem solving in undergraduate courses
Deeper learning prepares students to think critically and solve complex problems. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
Kindergarteners build a marble run inspired by a lesson about movement. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
several years ago my brother kirk introduced me to TRIZ, a russian problem solving theory and methodology.
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Altshuller screened over 200,000 patents looking for inventive problems and how they were solved.
Students in Skyline High School’s Green Energy Pathway cut cardboard to make the frame for a solar house model. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
Curt Huot from Digi-Key came by on 4 November and gave a presentation on work and life at Digi-Key. He also dropped off the bronze traveling trophy and the check for $5,000 that we got because this team took first at this year's Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Competition.
L to r: Curt Huot, Nic McPhee, Chad Seibert, Brian Goslinga, Justin Mullin, Eugene Butler.
Students test a model wind turbine they constructed. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
Mind Mapping is a great way to increase your effectiveness. It helps you maintain focus on both the things that are important and the things that are urgent. Your Mind Maps are easy to understand and work in with the way your brain organizes information, allowing you to prioritize, organize, and solve problems easily. Mind Map from www.novamind.com/connect/nm_documents/84
America’s digital future belongs in the landscape that shaped its mythic past. The East Coast is too crowded, too political, too constrained. The West has the land, the sky, the silence, and the cultural acceptance of big, strange, ambitious projects. The West is where nature and America build big things. A national strategy will eventually have to acknowledge this. A purpose-built, water-neutral, power-generating data-center city is exactly the kind of solution that sidesteps the political gridlock of the East.
The first Western data-center city wouldn’t look like Silicon Valley. It would be a frontier outpost built with 21st-century materials. Picture a high desert basin in western Wyoming, central Nevada, or northern Arizona – a place where the horizon is a straight line and the mountains rise like a dark blue wall. The city sits 20-30 miles from the nearest town, on a plateau with stable bedrock, near a major transmission corridor, within reach of a long-haul fiber backbone. The land is cheap, empty, and quiet. You can hear your own heartbeat out there. This is the first rule of the Western data-center city. It begins where people aren’t.
The power spine consists of Solar, Wind, and a Small Modular Reactor (SMR). A 2-3 GW solar array spread across thousands of acres, tracking the sun like a slow tide. High-capacity wind turbines are placed along ridgelines where the wind never stops. A next-generation SMR, not flashy, just a quiet, steady, heartbeat of baseload power. Together, they form a grid that is redundant, self-sufficient, and designed for 24/7 compute loads. This city generates more power than it consumes.
Water is the limiting factor. So, the city uses closed-loop cooling systems, dry cooling towers, on-site atmospheric water generators, a small desalination plant if near a brackish aquifer, and greywater recycling for everything except drinking. The goal is zero net water draw from the local environment. The city must not steal water from the West.
The data centers themselves are low, wide, monolithic structures, built to blend into the desert. Architecturally, they feature sandstone-colored cladding, low-profile roofs, thermal mass walls, deep overhangs, and solar canopies shading the entire campus. They look less like tech buildings and more like modernist desert monasteries. The city respects the landscape.
The city includes a 2,500 – 3,000 ft STOL airstrip, hangars for 20-40 light aircraft, a fleet of Super Cubs, Huskies, and Carbon Cubs, a small maintenance shop, and a fuel depot and battery charging station for future electric STOL craft. These aircraft serve rapid personnel transport, perimeter inspection, fire spotting, survey flights, emergency access, and supply runs to nearby towns. It’s the modern version of the old ranch airstrip – but scaled for a digital frontier. The city must be reachable by sky even when roads fail.
Roads are minimal – one main arterial road, a ring road around the data district, a few service roads to solar fields and wind farms. Everything else is left untouched. The city is designed to disturb as little land as possible.
Only a few hundred people live here full-time. Their district includes a small residential village, a medical outpost, a fire station, a logistics depot, a research center, a flight operations building, a gym, a general store, and a bar. It feels like a cross between a national park village, a scientific station, and a frontier town. The city is built for workers, not for sprawl. It is the New American Frontier.
A school librarian teaches students how to play chess. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
A student cuts a piece of wood as part of a boat-building project. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
Students test a model wind turbine they constructed. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
A common problem I encounter when designing anything from objects to layouts is the position of components, so I made myself some visual tools with a number of options. This is the relative position tool.
The tool is used by making a list of the components and then connecting two of them with suitable positional words, repeating the process as required.
Our son Adam Florin gave a fascinating talk about generative music at Algorithmic Art Assembly, hosted by Gray Area Art + Technology. He started with a quick demo of Patter, his music composition software, then took us on an illuminating journey through the many people and ideas which inspired him to create his cool freeform generative sequencer.
Brian Eno, who coined the phrase “generative music”, recently likened it to gardening -- but the material practice is just as much rooted in centuries of formal aesthetics, predictive statistics and industrial automation. How can we negotiate the tension between organic and and the mechanical in the algorithmic arts?
Adam has created some amazing digital tools and art exhibits in that space. It was great to hear what he's learned in this fascinating field, exploring the intersection of human and machine creativity. And to top it off, he gave this talk on his birthday, which was the best present of all!
Watch video highlights:
View more photos:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157677379327027
Learn about Patter:
adamflorin.work/projects/patter/
Learn about Algorithmic Arts:
#AlgorithmicArtAssembly #GrayArea
High school chemistry students work together to create a 3-D model of a molecule. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages