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A teacher explains an assignment about molecules to high school chemistry students. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
A teacher helps two engineering students build a butterfly house. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
On February 1, 2011; a problem solving class, "Traveling to Planet Zork," was conducted by Dr. Peggy Moch in the Continuing Education building.
A prekindergarten student builds with stacking bricks during a center rotation. Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages
Jim Phillips, the owner of this unusual piece of rural history, shared this VERY interesting piece about it. It is long, but well worth reading!!!
"Doodlebug --- A homemade tractor made from any parts you had or any parts that you could scrounge or barter. All were built as cheaply as possible."
They were popular during the Thirties and Forties. During this time tractors were hard to get, because money was scarce after the Great Depression. During WWII most industries were switched over to making war vehicles and products. Very few tractors were being made. Most young men were called to war, leaving farmers to keep all farm work going by themselves. Doodlebugs took the place of a horse as they could drag logs out of the woods, pull a trailer, plow, rake hay, disc and use most horse drawn equipment. Farmers did not have to spend eight hours a day walking behind a horse. After the war, most doodlebugs were not used because tractors became plentiful and were affordable. Most were scrapped or parked in the woods to rot.
Folks think the AI is new, but in fact it has been around for many years. Back then, AI stood for "American Ingenuity," and there was nothing artificial about it. It means to creatively adapt available resources to overcome challenges. That's a doodlebug.
This doodlebug started life as an example of FORD's largest truck for 1930. It had bigger wheels and tires than Model A cars and small pick-ups. Stronger frame with 4-speed transmission, with dual wheels in the rear end. To make a doodlebug you get rid of all parts not needed like body, bed, fenders and running boards. Basically you end up with grill, radiator, motor, transmission, frame and rear end. Next step is shortening frame as much as possible so turning radius is as tight as possible. This vehicle has front axle installed upside down to gain ground clearance and largest 20-inch tires that were available then. The hood is home made from a metal barrel and side panels are home made along with a small wooden bed on back. Loader on front of the vehicle is raised and lowered by a 6 V starter motor and pulley system. Bucket on loader is from an old horse drawn dirt pan. Many old roads were made using horses and dirt pans. They would scoop dirt up on top of a hill and drag it to the bottom, sometimes for 8 hours a day. The scoop will not hold much material, but it sure beats a wooden boom, blister causing sweat machine. (A shovel.)
Talk about surviving, this is a true survivor, been around 95 years and still going strong!
137/365
Found at the annual Farmers Fest, in Mount Airy, NC
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
Tomorrow is Monday.
Monday is Pro Account Day.
Pro Account Day is also the day Flickr stops giving me notice about how I'm getting to 200 pictures on my Photostream.
You don't have to worry anymore Mr and Mrs Flickr, the problem will be solved tomorrow. Maybe even before you awake from your slumber.
Oh, if anyone was wondering, I had a good night last night.
I met up with one of my friends who had his birthday yesterday, so that was good fun.
Also, I may have changed my choice of camera.
That's if the price dramatically drops in 6 months.
DROP PRICE. DROP.
High schoolers at Capital City Public Charter School work together to assemble a circuit kit in the school’s makerspace. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
wakefield, massachusetts
1957
transitron workroom
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Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
An engineering teacher helps two twelfth-grade students secure the roof on the blue jay house they built. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
A team of Scouts at the Tivoli games area work through a remote maze, where they must guide a suspended block through the maze while standing at the edges. It's harder than it looks.
This image was taken on assignment for Jamboree Today of the Boy Scouts of America.
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
A teacher offers advice as two engineering students stain the animal house they built. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
At the warm shores of the Salton Sea in southern CA, we had car problems.
What a great place to break down – we were grateful that it happened there – but nonetheless, the problem still had to be solved. I lay under cars a lot in my life, with dirty hands and banged up knuckles, and although I managed to single-handedly get us out of so many serious car problems on all our crazy travels, I never enjoyed it. Any such skills I may have picked up over half a life time traveling with cars came uninvited and reluctantly. But now I have them, and that determines how I react when the motor home doesn’t start up anymore. I learned to fix things; I couldn’t do it any other way. Others have cultivated skills how to find help – hard to know what is ultimately better. Nowadays I’m much more interested in understanding things than in changing them (fixing them).
What we usually perceive as a problem is an event, a situation that is related to our self as an individual, as a person. A problem is an interpretation of a situation, the effect of a subjective “view”, a judgment referring to an expectation. One has to be conscious of one’s self to even be able to have a problem. A problem can exist for me but not as such. The universe doesn’t know problems. Problems don’t really exist, we invent them, we create them, and we have them. When you look closely, our mind is nothing but a problem factory. The mysterious and miraculous thing is that it is at the same time also an incredible problem-solving machine. So often this process of making and solving problems is our life. It consumes almost all our energy and blinds us to the underlying universal “ok-ness”, the most basic quality of everything before we have a thought about it, the marvelous wholeness that allows and contains our unique nature to process and manipulate everything, and yet offers freedom.
A student shows a classmate how to complete a challenging math problem. images.all4ed.org/ PHOTO CREDIT: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.
Harry Max
The Problem is Not the Problem
People are fascinated with getting ahead and being successful in their personal and professional lives. Generally, this has to do with their ability to solve problems, identify obstacles in their path, and figure out how to move past them. Regardless of profession, each of us is on the hook to solve problems ranging from the trivial to the intractable. But “problem” is an overused word. We assign the label to almost every imperfect situation we encounter, then deal with all of them in roughly the same way: either we avoid them or tackle them head-on. Then we wonder what happened when, lo and behold, our kneejerk "solutions" turn against us. For all our efforts to conquer the skill, for all the value we place on those who do it well, we too often ignore a critical truth about problem-solving: problems are not always problems. More accurately, there is a range of problem types, and a range of different strategies appropriate for handling them. We just can’t tell the difference. In this talk, recognized design thinker Harry Max reveals a new model for diagnostic thinking, one that will forever change the way you envision problem solving.