It was either serendipitous or ironic that the two videos featured below popped into my digital radar this week. As you watch and compare/contrast the videos, consider a couple of educational questions that are batted hither-and-yon in the edublogosphere: What are the implicit/explicit learning objectives (stated and unstated) for the students? Standards-based or real world? …
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for: ‘October, 2009’
Digital Fabrication & Geometry
The text below is a “rough” literature review connecting digital fabrication systems/techniques to elementary students’ understanding of geometry. I decided to create a post with my work because I think that it could be a valuable resource for people other than my professor and me. I have included links in appropriate places. Direct links to …
Desktop Manufacturing in K12 Schools
Fast Company’s Jamais Cascio wrote an interesting article entitled The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution a couple of months ago. In the piece, Jamais describes the coming of a digital fabrication revolution when everyday people will be able to take a digital design, import it into a personal computer, and then send the file to specialized hardware …
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