Abracadabra: Imagining Access to Creative Computing Tools for Everyone

2017 ◽  
pp. 365-376
Author(s):  
Joel Sadler ◽  
Lauren Aquino Shluzas ◽  
Paulo Blikstein
Keyword(s):  
Creative Computing

Can Anyone Make a Smart Device?: Evaluating the Usability of a Prototyping Toolkit for Creative Computing

2016 ◽  
pp. 147-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Sadler ◽  
Lauren Aquino Shluzas ◽  
Paulo Blikstein ◽  
Sakti Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Smart Device ◽  
Creative Computing

Smart City Kids Lab: Creative Computing in Primary School

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Azevedo Gomes ◽  
Helena Gomes ◽  
Belmiro Rego ◽  
Barbara Sousa ◽  
Manuela Loureiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Creative Computing

Multimodal Literacy and Creative Computing Badges in a Teacher Quality Partnership Residency Program

2022 ◽  
pp. 300-312
Author(s):  
Harriet Fayne ◽  
Tom Bijesse ◽  
Paul Allison ◽  
Anne Rothstein
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Teacher Quality ◽  
Residency Program ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Multimodal Literacy ◽  
Literacy Strategies ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Creative Computing ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Teacher Residency

Introducing micro-credentialing into Lehman College's teacher residency program provides candidates with opportunities not afforded in Master's courses of study. Through the micro-credential offerings, residents learn to integrate literacy strategies and computational thinking across subject areas and grade levels. This chapter explores how micro-credentials validate non-credit “course” structures by linking content knowledge with pedagogy and theory with practice. The design and execution of both the micro-credentials described in the chapter make explicit connection between competencies and student learning.

scholarly journals Human Creativity and Consciousness: Unintended Consequences of the Brain’s Extraordinary Energy Efficiency?

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Tim Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Large Network ◽  
Available Energy ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Creative Computing ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Susceptibility To Noise

It is proposed that both human creativity and human consciousness are (unintended) consequences of the human brain’s extraordinary energy efficiency. The topics of creativity and consciousness are treated separately, though have a common sub-structure. It is argued that creativity arises from a synergy between two cognitive modes of the human brain (which broadly coincide with Kahneman’s Systems 1 and 2). In the first, available energy is spread across a relatively large network of neurons, many of which are small enough to be susceptible to thermal (ultimately quantum decoherent) noise. In the second, available energy is focussed on a smaller subset of larger neurons whose action is deterministic. Possible implications for creative computing in silicon are discussed. Starting with a discussion of the concept of free will, the notion of consciousness is defined in terms of an awareness of what are perceived to be nearby counterfactual worlds in state space. It is argued that such awareness arises from an interplay between memories on the one hand, and quantum physical mechanisms (where, unlike in classical physics, nearby counterfactual worlds play an indispensable dynamical role) in the ion channels of neural networks, on the other. As with the brain’s susceptibility to noise, it is argued that in situations where quantum physics plays a role in the brain, it does so for reasons of energy efficiency. As an illustration of this definition of consciousness, a novel proposal is outlined as to why quantum entanglement appears to be so counter-intuitive.

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