Introduction

Question 1

What is hacking?

Answer 1

A usually creatively improvised solution to a computer hardware or programming problem or limitation

Question 2

What is hacking in the context of this course?

Answer 2

Working with a system that cannot be changed, but finding ways to overcome it’s limitations. Your brain in this context.

Question 3

What are affordances?

Answer 3

What on object affords us to do with it. What is a branch used for for different animals, for example.

Question 4

Index cards are _______ for learning

Answer 4

affordances

Question 5

Index cards are useful for what reasons?

Answer 5

• two sides - Info on one side and the other. Half the information at a time (Recall)
• compact and somewhat rigid - Easy to shuffle (Interleaving)
• relatively small - Limited space to write (Elaborate)