How computers work, conserving sound, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week

How computers work, conserving sound, and a comic – Top 3 of the Week

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The abstraction of how computers work is causing students to be confused on what goes on inside a computer

The abstraction of how computers work is causing students to be confused on what goes on inside a computer

Computational thinking has been a hugely successful idea and is now taught at school in many countries across the world. Although I welcome the positioning of computer science as a respectable, influential intellectual discipline, in my view computational thinking has abstracted us too far away from the heart of computation – the machine. The world…

Dealing with math trauma – Don’t let timed tests form your math identity

Dealing with math trauma – Don’t let timed tests form your math identity

Math trauma manifests as anxiety or dread, a debilitating fear of being wrong. This fear limits access to life paths for many people, including school and career choices. While math trauma has multiple sources, there are some that parents and teachers have power to influence directly: outdated ideas of what it means to be good at math. These…

Do you want to hear what extinct technology sounds like? Conserve The Sound has you covered

Do you want to hear what extinct technology sounds like? Conserve The Sound has you covered

Conserve the sound« is an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life. Accompanying the archive…

Add your favorite sites or search engines directly to the Google Chrome address bar

Add your favorite sites or search engines directly to the Google Chrome address bar

Add your favorite sites or search engines directly to the Google Chrome address bar. You may have used some of the keywords to automatically search specific sites in the address bar. Google sets up several keywords by default. For example, if you type youtube.com into the address bar, Chrome let’s you know that you can…