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Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reification: Walter Benjamin, Generative AI, and the Future of Cultural Production

I. Introduction: Art, Alienation, and the Algorithm A. The Confluence of Past Critiques and Present Technologies The early 21st century is characterized by technological advancements that are profoundly reshaping cultural production and human experience. Among these, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands out, prompting a re-evaluation of fundamental concepts such as creativity,…

Art in the Age of Algorithmic Reification: Walter Benjamin, Generative AI, and the Future of Cultural Production

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Just the Numbers

One: Bell Labs 1947 Solid State at Last Source: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/digital-logic/12/273 Making a transistor. Chemistry, electricity, positive and negative charges, holes and free electrons. Semiconducting materials residing between conductors and insulators but easy to manipulate with a base or tap. Look for the emitters that handles the main current and the collector…

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Summer Post #5

I started putting together a Micro:Bit based drone called Air:Bit. I think it’s great that companies and people are incorporating a Micro:Bit into their projects.

It’s like the Volkswagen of microprocessors.

It’s functional and provides everything necessary to get started with physical computing in a form factor that’s not going to easily fail and leave you in the middle of a project.

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Summer Post #4

Outputting for a Cricut Maker machine from Scratch coding

The girls have been working on creating stories in Scratch through an online summer coding class I signed them up for. So I thought for a change I’d work on helping them in coding shapes and printing out the results on our Cricut vinyl cutter.

https://nostarch.com/superscratch3

Using the Super Scratch book as a start, I decided to…

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Summer Post #3

Lego is still a creative outlet for me as an adult.

One of the projects I’d been wanting to do with my summer vacation has been to play with Lego.

Using the spreadsheet that Yoshihito Isogawa @isogawastudio ‘s and https://www.facebook.com/isogawastudioprovides I had spent a considerable amount of time tracking down the pieces necessary to construct all the possible combinations of…

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Summer Post #2

I’ve been interested in how information can be posted and shared from sensors and I worked on posting to my Adafruit IO dashboard. I used a board and activity that incorporated Arduino and modified the code to have both Fahrenheit and Celsius. These activities are fun to do but are taking away from doing the same thing but with Circuit Python which is a goal this summer.

I wonder if it’s…

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Summer Post #1

I will never finish the summer todo list.

As soon as my last day of teaching or my work happens I feel as if I’m enjoying one of my favorite times of year. It’s June, but the summer solstice hasn’t happened yet. The days are still increasing in length and the sun hasn’t reached it’s farthest climb up in the northern hemisphere and a position farthest from earth.

It’s always a couple weeks…

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I grew up on space sticks and Tang.

I grew up on space sticks and Tang.

When I entered the world, space was full of promise. Four days after I was born Yuri Gregarin completed the first maned space flight circumnavigating the earth. Less than one month later Alan Shepard participated in the first US maned space flight. It all became a male dominated science and engineering achievement one after the other.

There’s another history that many people are beginning to see…

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A Teacher with Daughters

A Teacher with Daughters

I came across a set of images that caught my eye on my Twitter feeds. I tried to follow the trail back, and the Twitter search #itwasneveradress wasn’t stopping and led me back to 2015 to a STEAM conference. I guess I had missed this before. I have in the past looked at universal graphics with keener interest for what they show us about ourselves. How can one image possibly be representative for…

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The Lexicographic Nightmare

Why is innovation in education so crucial today?

I had to promise myself as I wrote this post that I wasn’t going to have a negative outcome or perspective. I’m sure other teachers in #IMMOOC are thankful for these online opportunities to share their thoughts and be inspired. I’m also sure I’m like others, who still see a minority of the teachers in their district participating outside them in…

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Genius Hour and Student Voice

Genius Hour and Student Voice

When thinking about a learner focussed classroom, the activity called Genius Hour is frequently mentioned. Genius Hour encapsulates a way to begin individualizing our student’s learning, and to do so in a project type of environment.

What is Genius Hour?

As we know, there are many ways to be innovative in solving problems in the world. Many companies have realized that as their employees have…

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(via Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners)

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Every child deserves the chance to #code in their school! Join the #wonderleague to inspire innovators of tomorrow! http://thndr.me/53Aues

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Raspberry Pi Academy

I can’t believe it’s already been a few weeks since I attended the first Raspberry Pi Academy in Mountain View, CA. The organization and structure of the weekend really help take my understanding to the next level. The experience was everything I had hoped and more. The team really helped us the teachers now as learners begin seeing through a hands on experience the value of using such a device…

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The Overselling of Ed Tech

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the idea of using digital technology in the classroom tends to be either loved or hated. After all, anything that's...

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Glorious day! Google has launched a simple way to filter Google images by reuse rights. Click the search tools, and select your license. Thank you, Google!