“Brandy’s case illustrates that computation can be used as a way to tell stories or to create personally meaningful artwork in the case of the birthday card. Computation is also a learned skill that becomes useful as youth, even those like Brandy who are unable to read, can use for creative production.”
Reflection:
This quote stuck out to me because it illustrates how literacy encompasses more than reading and writing. Creativity allows students who are weak in core subjects the ability to express themselves. Technology gives these students this creative outlet. I hadn't thought of the computation side in relation to "artwork".
I found a quote by Steve Jobs that I thought was interesting.
“In my perspective … science and computer science is a liberal art, it’s something
everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life.
It’s not something that should be relegated to 5 percent of the population over in the corner.
It’s something that everybody should be exposed to and everyone should
have mastery of to some extent, and that’s how we viewed
computation and these computation devices.”
Then I found this video on computational creativity:
I love that quote! We really need to reconsider what is considered Liberal Arts in the Digital Age.
ReplyDeleteGreat quote from Steve Jobs. He was definitely as much of an artist as a scientist.
ReplyDeleteI loved the quote from Steve Jobs too! Yes - Science as a liberal art. When I was in school, I hated science... it really just seemed like a lot of big words that I didn't understand, but now I'm fascinated by it, and I think it has a lot to do with design.
ReplyDeleteI really liked the quote from Steve Jobs. He was an amazing influence to our society. Design and the use of technology inspires so many students to be engaged in the learning process - I am looking forward to where all classes use technology as much as the computer and technology classes do.
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