Periodicals>Journal Article: Marti, Gerardo (2011), Hacker Ethics and Higher Learning: The Moral Clash Determining the Future of American Higher Education, The Cresset, Easter 2011 (Vol LXXIV, No. 4 pp 17-27), Retrieved on 2016-04-26Source Material [thecresset.org]
Folksonomies: education hacking Memes
26 APR 2016
Hacking is Playful
Also central to the Hacker Ethic is playfulness. At a 2006 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Matt Webb and Ben Cerveny wrote, “Hacking is a playful act. In a primal sense, play is the investigation and experimentation with borders and combinations” (O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, website). Despite early, highly structured approaches to computing in mainframe laboratories in the mid-twentieth century, a computing culture of iterative experimental hacking has evolved that is es...26 APR 2016