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Week 9 Thu Ngo

The Margolis reading was an exciting read for me as it mentioned the flowering of computer science as a field of study. It reminded me of when CS was a very unpopular and even stigmatized field. It was also exciting to see that a program such as ECS was in place and that it was… Read more Week 9 Thu Ngo

Week 8 Thu Ngo

As someone who loves video games and mmorpgs, the Steinkuehler reading was a very exciting and motivating read. The parallels it drew between players collaborating and contributing knowledge towards the scientific community contributing to “collective intelligence” is something that I never would have considered. This leads to me a few questions. The first is if this… Read more Week 8 Thu Ngo

Week 7 - Thu Ngo

The Keith Devlin video gave me a totally new perspective on math and symbols. The first is that I’ve always seen math as what Devlin describes as “the representation of math”. The second is that the symbols that we use to use represent math is artificial. This second realization was huge for me. Mathematical symbols… Read more Week 7 - Thu Ngo

Week 6 Reading

The Curwood reading brought up really interesting points regarding the effect of fan-fiction on writing skills. I think there is a lot of benefit to fan-fiction communities as it provides users with a location to discuss lore, be inspired by other pieces of fan-fiction, and share ideas. All these – especially in the context of… Read more Week 6 Reading

Final Group Project

Group: Aditi Poduval, Harry Gamble, Thu Ngo Interest: A way for parents to find/know the most up to date educational apps and a way for them to monitor their children’s app usage

Reading Week 5

  Response: The Williams et. al. reading really got me thinking about the video games I played when I was little. It notes how characters in video games are predominantly male and white. I personally never saw representation as a problem until I got to Stanford. A lot of the problems, I’ve learned, affect children.… Read more Reading Week 5

Assignment 1 - Thu Ngo

https://studio.code.org/ The website’s focus is to teach the fundamentals of programming and computer science to students aged 4 – 18 (I focused on the 4-6 year old activities).   Review Aside from teaching younger students the fundamentals of coding and computer science, studio.code.org also exposes them to the idea that coders can be of any… Read more Assignment 1 - Thu Ngo

Week 4 Readings - Thu

I always heard how play time is important for children but never thought to ask myself why. From the readings the reasons why have become a little more clear, which has led me to see how what children play with is really important. You can’t just tell a kid to go play and expect it… Read more Week 4 Readings - Thu

Week 3 Readings - Thu

The Takeuchi reading was a big wake up call for me. Growing up I’d look at kids who were using Ipads and Iphones and shake my head. I’d think things like they’re wasting their time and aren’t socializing. Yet I’d look right at my smartphone afterwards. The Takeuchi reading made me realize that I should… Read more Week 3 Readings - Thu

John Dorian - Scrubs

This is the guy who inspired me to be pre-med all throughout middle school and high school. He was quirky, personable, fallible, and a doctor.