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Structured & Independent Thinking What may be regarded as “normal” one minute was part of a (technological) revolution yesterday and may not have existed last week. Social Media – in its various and evolving formats – is having profound and disturbing effects on our children. How do we protect our children from the current online […]

THE ENGINEERED COMPUTING MACHINE THE HUMAN COGNITIVE SYSTEM THE INTERFACE [HANDLE] INTERFACES ACCESS HANDLES, MENUS & BUTTONS ACCESS TO KEY INFORMATION: INFORMATION MODELS THE MODEL IS THE INTERFACE

Models Simple graphical models constructed by the “Thinker Modeller” to represent Thinking. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT SPECIFY & NAME YOUR FOCUS SPECIFY & NAME THE CONTEXT THEN ELABORATE A MODEL IN THIS FRAMED & RULE-BASED SPACE MODELLING THE SMALLEST NUMBER OF KEY ELEMENTS (CATEGORIES) LINKED INTO A SIMPLE MEANINGFUL HIERARCHICAL MODEL

Schemata, Maps “Schema” comes from the Greek word schēmat or schēma, meaning “figure”. A diagrammatic representation. Broadly: a structured framework or plan: outline A mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a system of organizing and perceiving new information such as a mental schema or conceptual model. Examples […]

The Digital World Computing MachinesMainframe Computers Analogue Valves Mainframe Computers Digital Personal Computors Workstations Desktop Mobile Tablet Mobile Phone Networks The Internet The World Wide Web Consumer Sites Stuff OnLine Virtual Reality Machine Learning Social Media People Manipulation Algorithms People Adaptive Algorithms INFORMATION Information Chaos Disinformation Information Modelling Tools

“The Paraphernalia of It All”Frank Zappa [will someone prove that I am not imagining all this or am actually all on my own][Remind me which track from which album?] The Paraphernalia The Idea is that the Gadgets (here, the tools, productivity, creativity) can get in the way, and be a bit of a barrier. Really?Yes […]

The Magic Browser ‘Frameworks’ BLOG POSTS I hope to write a series of BLOG POSTS – regarding some of the ideas around ‘Frameworks’ – in no particular order. Reading the Whole POSTDepending on the device you employ to display the Website BLOG POSTS, the trick is to select the POST Icon & Date to view […]

OBJECTS Object-Oriented; OOT object-oriented technology; OOP object-oriented programming; OOPL objecoriented programmig languages OBJECTS The term Object, is a key element of both the GST and OO concepts. An object in GST is often called an entity; however the terms are defined synonymously and refer to a fundamental building block of which the system is comprised. […]

1 – 2 – 3 – LOTS! I recall that – long time ago, at school, the teacher wrote on the board: 1 -2 – 3 – LOTS. I don’t remember exactly why she did this and what the context – the lesson – the learning was. I think it was about Scale & Complexity. […]

The Model is the Interface The Model with the Fewest Key Elements Representing the System, The Domain The HNS Browser, 1987: displayed on a Compaq Portable PC. The Model of the Human Nervous System – with the fewest key elements as Categories represented by (simple*, graphical symbolic) Containers as a “Browser” (browse, select/point and click). […]