octo.jon

Jon Stapleton. CS educator and recovering music teacher. Music, making, creative coding, TRPGs 🦀 Claws Up! 2 degrees in music ed from JMU. He/they. 💍@Kerry_Mo

[octo.jon @jstapes]

The time has come to be here less often. I'm in https://t.co/KrtzQepYd4 at the handle @octojon for the foreseeable future while I build my dopamine factories back up

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@ethanhein (but it's important to note that these sorts of pedagogical techniques aren't effective if students don't understand the difference between producing a sense of time internally via audiation/imagination and following a beat. Playing in different grooves with drums helps)

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@ethanhein I like the met for other purposes--the tech mentioned above where you set it to 2-beat, 4-beat, or 8-beat intervals (especially if the click happens on 2 & 4, or beat 3) is a great scaffold toward getting sts to audiate "time" rather than being reactive to it

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@imaginmatrix ...and just bc it's a beef I have with the music ed field (you prolly know this, plz don't read this as a correction)--there are *lots* of music notation systems widely used today that aren't std notation! Std notation isn't actually that useful for lots (most?) of music-making

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@imaginmatrix Lots of great examples out there to find but it's also worth saying that many, many musical practices were/are primarily social/aural affairs. Replicating musical performances with lots of fidelity using notation like classical musicians do today is a pretty recent cultural norm!

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@ShriramKMurthi Thank you for the reminder! I tend to forget you can use it outside of Roblox now :)

[octo.jon @jstapes]

Petition to make Lua as ubiquitous in K-12 as Python has (inexplicably) become. This is a joke, but also if you know me you know it's not really a joke

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

This doesn't get enough attention. It boggles my mind how hard it is for educators to give students a clean, simple, consistent, cross-platform Python programming experience, which is supposed to be so "easy". From
https://t.co/gtZE1wwuvi
by @karthiks.

[octo.jon @jstapes]

While I'm wishcasting about scripting languages let's get a gradually-typed Lua variant?? Not sure how this would work but it's be useful for educators like me who hate computers

[octo.jon @jstapes]

There's a widespread myth that Python is "easy to learn" or whatever and I'm here to tell you that it just isn't. I would trade CircuitPython for CircuitC or CircuitLua in a second and beyond that I'd rather just be teaching Picotron

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@NoraDotCodes the replies on this one are so bleak lol

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@thingskatedid This is honestly incredible, thank you so much. I wish there were threads like this for all sorts of parts, I'm often at a loss choosing among many available options

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@jdragsky This is a really central question in the world of interest-based pedagogy and education! Maybe worth digging into some of the intersections & strategies educators employ to facilitate & prepare for learner-directed/learner-led education

[octo.jon @jstapes]

A huge downside to mostly using fedi these days is that I tend to forget that truly random people will show up on my TL here bearing gifts of wild, rancid, steaming takes. On fedi I get to block dicecamp entirely and move on with my life

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@lindaholmes We had mice and voles and such--only problematic if they find their way into the heating ducts!

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@unboxedcereal "Culture war" is a little strong, right? I didn't mention creativity. I did misread you in the context of the QT--sorry! I still think your def for RoC doesn't hold up, tho. Folks *also* use "RoC" to deviate from/disrupt the text & maintain continuity when the text would ruin it.

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@unboxedcereal I think there's a solid chance that people mean lots of different things when they say "rule of cool". But imo "doing things that aren't in the text is bad" is a TRPG designer-brained take that only makes sense if the game is abstract and not emergent/dialogical.

[octo.jon @jstapes]

@lindaholmes In addition to ticks, woodland creatures can take up residence in the meadow and move in during the winter. I live in rural VA tho so this might not be the same for the DC area