This post is a redesign of Kris’s Cereal Box digital fabrication project. Although the tweaks that I describe move Kris’s elementary lesson into the middle school and high school realm, it could be altered to be more of a discovery-type experience for elementary students familiar with digital fabrication and ModelMaker. I came across a lesson …
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The World Peace Game
World Peace…and other 4th-grade achievements is premiering this week at the SXSW festival in Austin, TX. This documentary focuses on a local Charlottesville teacher, John Hunter, and his fourth grade students. The movie highlights Hunter’s background and features his self-created game, The World Peace Game, “a hands-on political simulation that gives players the opportunity to …
Fab@School 3D Printing
Cross-posted on the Fab@Home blog. Personal manufacturing, digital fabrication, and 3D printing are terms and processes that aren’t foreign to Fab@Home users. With the publication of Chris Anderson’s Wired article entitled In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits, a wider swathe of the general public now has these less-than-palpable ideas in their …
The Problem with Polygons
This short video is ripe for exploration in all geometry classrooms. Plus, I would love to see Unlimited Detail Technology powering a game on my XBox.
Estimation Calculator
Peter Malcom, a fellow graduate student in the Instructional Technology program at UVA who needs to update his website, just sent me a working flash prototype of an estimation calculator. The estimation calculator provides students with scaffolded, visual feedback about estimating answers to addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problems. The working prototype is below the …
Not Sure About ARG but…
This is pretty cool. It’s something that I wrote about during one of my early entries on this blog. Glad someone realized some of my initial annotation ideas… Click on the video when prompted. This is Choose-Your-Own-Adventure storytelling. It’s a story and game-like.
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