Comments on: Pink’s Sense of Meaning (in Rachel’s Numbers) http://battis.net/2008/03/21/pinks-sense-of-meaning-in-rachels-numbers/ ...and I'm all out of bubble gum. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:51:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: battis.net » Blog Archive » Multiple Intelligences About Coding http://battis.net/2008/03/21/pinks-sense-of-meaning-in-rachels-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-26 battis.net » Blog Archive » Multiple Intelligences About Coding Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:55:27 +0000 http://battis.net/blog/2008/03/21/pinks-sense-of-meaning-in-rachels-numbers/#comment-26 [...] Having just struck upon the similarities between Pink’s six new senses and Gardner’s multiple intelligences, I continue to be fascinated by examples of folks employing these ideas in creative ways: enter Basildon Coder, recently highlighted on Slashdot for describing a Wodehouse-ian approach to code refactoring. As always, I look at this and start to ponder how to use it in the classroom with my students: one of the real challenges that my students face is not the development of new code (although that is challenging) but figuring out how to use a body of code written by someone else (me, their classmates, some godawful Windows GDI API, etc.). I have been struck by the difficulty my students have faced this year in grasping the 50,000 foot view of coding — perhaps a visual representation like this might be a first step. Sort of a Powers of 10 for programming. [...] [...] Having just struck upon the similarities between Pink’s six new senses and Gardner’s multiple intelligences, I continue to be fascinated by examples of folks employing these ideas in creative ways: enter Basildon Coder, recently highlighted on Slashdot for describing a Wodehouse-ian approach to code refactoring. As always, I look at this and start to ponder how to use it in the classroom with my students: one of the real challenges that my students face is not the development of new code (although that is challenging) but figuring out how to use a body of code written by someone else (me, their classmates, some godawful Windows GDI API, etc.). I have been struck by the difficulty my students have faced this year in grasping the 50,000 foot view of coding — perhaps a visual representation like this might be a first step. Sort of a Powers of 10 for programming. [...]

]]> By: Crystal http://battis.net/2008/03/21/pinks-sense-of-meaning-in-rachels-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Crystal Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:38:39 +0000 http://battis.net/blog/2008/03/21/pinks-sense-of-meaning-in-rachels-numbers/#comment-25 Seth: I love you man. Your summaries of your reads, most of the time, make me stop and say hmm... I think it is because you are open, honest and clear in your analysis. Thank you for that. While you come through 100% electronically, I hope that we can connect soon, in person. Seth:

I love you man. Your summaries of your reads, most of the time, make me stop and say hmm… I think it is because you are open, honest and clear in your analysis. Thank you for that. While you come through 100% electronically, I hope that we can connect soon, in person.

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