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Computational media: the universal acid of mathematics teaching (2)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 21, 2009
Coping in a time of rapid change At the end of this post I will tell you why I have stopped wearing my watch. It’s a lovely watch, given to me a year ago, on my birthday, by my wife. But I have recently stopped wearing it. Several people have contributed comments to  “Computational media: […]
Computational media: the universal acid of mathematics teaching (1)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: December 17, 2009
The times they are a-changing In Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Daniel Dennett discusses a fantasy universal acid that eats through and transforms  all containers into which it is placed. He applies this notion of universal transformation to Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and writes: “… it eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake […]
