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This learning adventure showed me the importance of “metaphor and combination” and how we can use them to entertain new ideas and new ways of managing our affairs. (Pinker, 2007) Instead of taking abstract concepts like gravity and placing them into blank slates called minds we are using technological metaphors like Celestia to construct [...]
Human Trafficking from M. Scott Mortensen on Vimeo.
Choosing a Community
Your community should meet the following factors:
* You should be an outsider to this community, not a part of it.
Sometime around the year 2000 I worked as an activist in fighting human trafficking and what is now called modern-day slavery.
I shot a film with two friends, [...]
“What’s “cool” about the music composition example is that the computer allows learners of all ages to have experiences that connect them to hundreds or more years of cultural practice in a way that would be off-limits or impossible for most people even a few years ago. I make the point in the presentation that [...]
Here’s my first stab at the music learning adventure with Sibelius 5 First.
The aiff file was too big to upload to Wordpress so I edited and compressed in Final Cut and posted to Vimeo. Sibelius seems to be favored as a music scoring software so I accompanied the composition with some photos I’ve taken for [...]
