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 …
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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 …
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 …
Digital Fabrication at ISTE 2010
For the past eight months, I have worked with a number of elementary and middle school teachers on the interdisciplinary opportunities found within digitally fabricating objects. Digital fabrication, for those unfamiliar with this unique process, involves creating a digital design that is then produced in a physical form. With ISTE 2010 in a few …
Researching Milkshakes
I earmarked this passage as one to throw out when the edubloggers triumphantly danced upon higher education and its focus on methodology and testing. Upon reflection, I think that it could go both ways. (Thanks for the provocative book, LD. You can see where my mind is at!)
When McDonald’s wanted to improve sales of its …
The Key to Gold in Them There Hills: Laggards?
I admit that I made it to page 436 in Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations before I said, “No more.” The book chronicles nearly 50 years of innovation research, and it contains the studies and references to back it up (58 pages of research articles, books, reports, and studies). It is an extremely readable book, …
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