Difference between revisions of "Talk:Features/Resource monitoring"

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Ideally, the source for the strain display algorithm could be coded to facilitate hacking by interested learners. By this means, learners could substitute icon graphics and the algorithm formulas to create alternate displays and to experiment with their learning companion.

Revision as of 01:36, 21 February 2011

Objections

Collected from mailing lists and chat rooms

Anthropomorphizing the computer

Distracting

  • To Learners
  • To developers who should be fixing the faults more intrinsically

Inappropriate metaphor

  • Happy vs Sad Strained
  • Easy vs Hard
    • Train engine on an decline/level/incline

Ideally, the source for the strain display algorithm could be coded to facilitate hacking by interested learners. By this means, learners could substitute icon graphics and the algorithm formulas to create alternate displays and to experiment with their learning companion.