{"id":6242,"date":"2018-09-22T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=6242"},"modified":"2022-07-25T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T20:34:27","slug":"douglas-adams-computational-thinking-new-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2018\/09\/22\/douglas-adams-computational-thinking-new-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Adams & Computational Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Illustration by Punya Mishra.
See sketch of Douglas Adams at the end of this post. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have always been a huge fan of Douglas Adams, trying to sneak in his ideas into my academic writing whenever I can. I had written about my previous attempts in a blog post titled: Douglas Adams, technologies & anticipatory plagiarism<\/a>. I should admit that am lucky to have co-authors who share my love for Adams and enjoy playing these games together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danah Henriksen<\/a> and I were recently asked to write a Foreword to a book on Computational Thinking in the STEM Disciplines<\/em><\/a> and that gave us another opportunity to bring in Douglas Adams and his ideas. In this pieces we built on an insightful talk<\/a> given by Adams in 1998 at Magdalene College, Cambridge.You can read a transcript of the talk here<\/a> or listen to it here<\/a>. As we write in the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a <\/span>wide ranging, extempore <\/span>speech, Adams covered a range <\/span>of topics, <\/span>in his inimitably funny yet <\/span>insightful manner, including the cultural and intellectual <\/span>history of <\/span>the human civilization. One of <\/span>the insights he shared <\/span>with the audience how human technological history consists of, what he referred to as, <\/span>the four ages <\/span>of sand. <\/span>Specifically, Adams seeks <\/span>to describe how technological change <\/span>has changed and <\/span>broadened our understanding of <\/span>ourselves and the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You can read our article by following the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mishra, P., & Henriksen, D. (2018). Foreword<\/a>. In M. S. Khine (Ed). Computational Thinking in the STEM disciplines: Foundations and Research Highlights. Springer.  https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-93566-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sketch of Douglas Adams by Punya Mishra \u00a92018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illustration by Punya Mishra.See sketch of Douglas Adams at the end of this post.  I have always been a huge fan of Douglas Adams, trying to sneak in his ideas into my academic writing whenever I can. I had written about my previous attempts in a blog post titled: Douglas Adams, technologies & anticipatory plagiarism. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[635,11,33,28,24,34,31,27,8,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6242\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}