{"id":915,"date":"2009-01-22T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/01\/22\/not-changing-is-insanity-knowing-and-doing-january-2009-archives\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:59:08","slug":"not-changing-is-insanity-knowing-and-doing-january-2009-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/not-changing-is-insanity-knowing-and-doing-january-2009-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Changing is Insanity &#8211;Knowing and Doing: January 2009 Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2022   During one of his messages, Peter Denning showed the familiar quote, <strong>&#8220;Insanity is doing the same thing over again, expecting different results,&#8221;<\/strong> as a motivation to change. But I think there is more to it than that. I was reminded of a recent Frazz comic, in which the precocious Caulfield pointed out that <strong>the world is always changing, so it is also insanity to do the same thing over again, expecting the same results. <\/strong>The world is changing around computing and computing education. <strong>There is no particular reason to think that doing the same old things better will get us anywhere useful.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.uni.edu\/~wallingf\/blog\/archives\/monthly\/2009-01.html#e2009-01-21T07_55_01.htm\">Knowing and Doing: January 2009 Archives<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 During one of his messages, Peter Denning showed the familiar quote, &#8220;Insanity is doing the same thing over again, expecting different results,&#8221; as a motivation to change. But I think there is more to it than that. I was reminded of a recent Frazz comic, in which the precocious Caulfield pointed out that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/22\/not-changing-is-insanity-knowing-and-doing-january-2009-archives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Changing is Insanity &#8211;Knowing and Doing: January 2009 Archives&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-read"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}