I am going to be leading a workshop at The Lovett School in a few weeks, and the topic of the two-day intensive with middle school math teachers is digital fabrication. For readers unfamiliar with the topic du jour, digital fabrication is the process of creating a digital design that is then produced or manufactured …
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Digital Fabrication: M-Cubed
Mitchell Jetten is one of the youngest and most successful shop owners on Shapeways, an open web market for personally designed products. At age 19, Mitchell offers products that build upon his passion: model trains and railroad accessories. His most successful design is a train that is common to the Netherlands, a VIRM 9500 series, …
What’s in a Word?
Silvia Tolisano, author and blogger at Langwitches, recently wrote a post entitled 21st Century Skills-Literacies-Fluencies. The real meat of the post IMHO is her coach analogy through which she describes a metaphor for thinking about technology support and teacher practice as it applies to instructional technology: Coaches are working with athletes…but… they can’t PLAY FOR …
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