Comments on: Tinkering and Playing with Knowledge http://www.fullcirc.com/2009/03/08/tinkering-and-playing-with-knowledge/ connections for a changing world, online and offline... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:42:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang http://www.fullcirc.com/2009/03/08/tinkering-and-playing-with-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-7974 Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:16:29 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/?p=648#comment-7974 Thanks very much! The Carnegie meeting that JSB spoke at was pretty fascinating. It IS true that tinkering is fundamental to how science is done. Indeed, it's not a stretch to argue that most knowledge-production and creative activity can be called tinkering. Improvisation, iteration, failing until you succeed, sharing your work with others.... sounds like the way science really works. To complement the piece on the history of tinkering, Ive got a piece on the future of tinkering coming out in Vodafone Reciever this spring. Thanks very much! The Carnegie meeting that JSB spoke at was pretty fascinating.

It IS true that tinkering is fundamental to how science is done. Indeed, it’s not a stretch to argue that most knowledge-production and creative activity can be called tinkering. Improvisation, iteration, failing until you succeed, sharing your work with others…. sounds like the way science really works.

To complement the piece on the history of tinkering, Ive got a piece on the future of tinkering coming out in Vodafone Reciever this spring.

]]> By: Tinkering and Playing with Knowledge | Workplace Learning Today http://www.fullcirc.com/2009/03/08/tinkering-and-playing-with-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-7963 Tinkering and Playing with Knowledge | Workplace Learning Today Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:01:35 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/?p=648#comment-7963 [...] is the theme in the video by John Seely Brown that I recommended a few days ago. Nancy White discusses tinkering at length, and points to a number of other discussions of tinkering as an approach to dealing with the [...] [...] is the theme in the video by John Seely Brown that I recommended a few days ago. Nancy White discusses tinkering at length, and points to a number of other discussions of tinkering as an approach to dealing with the [...]

]]> By: Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/2009/03/08/tinkering-and-playing-with-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-7934 Nancy White Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:36:21 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/?p=648#comment-7934 Absolutely Steve. Yet someone we often discount it as 'wasting time!' Absolutely Steve. Yet someone we often discount it as ‘wasting time!’

]]> By: steve http://www.fullcirc.com/2009/03/08/tinkering-and-playing-with-knowledge/comment-page-1/#comment-7931 steve Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:34:46 +0000 http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/?p=648#comment-7931 Tinkering (or play) is a fundamental core of how science is done. Tinkering (or play) is a fundamental core of how science is done.

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