This course was wonderful when I took it a few years ago. Just heard the next offering starts in April, so I'm curious to see how it's evolved. From the creators:
Learning Creative Learning (LCL) is a free course and open community for educators and for anyone who cares about learning and creativity.
Over six weeks, you'll explore the ideas behind the creative learning educational approach, work on projects you actually care about, and connect with people from around the world who share your curiosity.
It's part course, part community, part creative playground.
LCL is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, the research team behind Scratch and Octostudio, the creative coding platforms used by millions of young learners worldwide.
It is also made possible by a global network of volunteer facilitators who help organize, translate, and support the community in multiple languages.
Fun read. Haha I also love the idea of being a mathematical braid. Arrival is a great film, but my favorite fictional take on this kind of thinking is still Slaughterhouse-Five.
I took one of the group's courses, Linear Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers, for fun at the beginning of COVID lockdown and loved it. Here's the course that teaches their basic approach to creating BLIS:
This is the first time I've "seen" Shinjuku Station. What a beautiful introduction. I first read about the station in Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage and always wondered what it looked like. Neat.
In all seriousness, I just learned about Sandstorm and think it could be a great fit for a local co-op I’m building. It’s a shame about the startup, but I hope we’ll get a chance to support the open collective.
JupyterLite is great! I use it heavily with my middle school math students — wonderful to have NumPy, matplotlib, and friends available without needing to set up accounts. I created a package called jupy5 that provides Turtle graphics and a p5.js-inspired sketchbook for JupyterLite as well.
Agreed except for the dig at Mark Jacobson. He was my undergrad and grad advisor, and I only knew him to be driven by data and a deep concern for the welfare of people and the planet. There are bad scientists out there but Mark isn't one of them. lol I recall him declining my request to put something about Al Gore in our common area because he didn't want to politicize the space.
Great question! The studies do consider the spatio-temporal distribution of generation and demand. Here's a recent paper [1] that develops roadmaps for 145 countries and has infographics with links to additional resources.
I found the source code for the LOADMATCH model [2] used in the studies which can run on a laptop. You can email Mark about data, source code for the GATOR-GCMOM model [3], and advice on running it.
And here's a talk [4] he gave on the topic at NASA Ames Research Center a few years back.
Really glad to see this discussion! My former advisor, Mark Jacobson, is one of the authors of the paper cited in the article. His book "100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything" [1] is a good starting point for folks with a more technical background. I recently started working on my own version [2] for young people and beginners that uses code as a medium to explore these ideas.
Perhaps more directly relevant for the HN crowd, Tom Greenwood's book "Sustainable Web Design" [3] provides simple strategies for reducing the climate impacts of the software systems we build.
Learning Creative Learning (LCL) is a free course and open community for educators and for anyone who cares about learning and creativity.
Over six weeks, you'll explore the ideas behind the creative learning educational approach, work on projects you actually care about, and connect with people from around the world who share your curiosity.
It's part course, part community, part creative playground.
LCL is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, the research team behind Scratch and Octostudio, the creative coding platforms used by millions of young learners worldwide.
It is also made possible by a global network of volunteer facilitators who help organize, translate, and support the community in multiple languages.