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Wiki guide to Hackathons
This wiki outlines the rising phenomena of the Hackathon – ( Hacking and Marathon). Once the preserve of computer geeks / hackers more and more attendance is becoming more diverse as people’s insatiable desire to fix, adapt, modify is made more accessible with the open source movement and peer 2 peer learning. Such hackathons can bring the…
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Mirrorbox: The Story of How Art Became Science
American Modeling Teachers Association (AMTA) Modeling Instruction has been under development since 1990 guided by David Hestenes (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Arizona State University). The method aims to address many of the limitations of more traditional methods e.g. lecture-demonstration method, the fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and the persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. The…
