13-3 "Making" readings

Making Readings "Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom "

• Da Vinci used his powers of observation, rather than the prevailing medieval practice of using the Bible and classical Greek writings, as the basis for science. 
• He was the greatest maker of all time. 
• Jean- Jacques Rousseau published a book that celebrated the natural abilities of the child and the importance of allowing children to develop freely in nature. 
• Pestalozzi was inspired by Rousseau and believed that learning was natural and resulted from a balance between heart, head, and hand. 
• Pestalozzi thought that learning resulted from the learner's first hand experiences and activity. 
• Petalozzi had a huge influence on Froebel 
• You might think of Froebel's gifts as the first educational toys. Milton Bradley Company was one of the largest manufacturers of Froebels gifts as kindergartners spread acss the globe and parents wanted their children to learn from Froebel gifts at home. 
• Maria Montessori also embrace Froebel's ideas, the use of material specifically. 
• John Dewey rejected the mechanistic ideals and highly regimented factory schooling that resulted from the industrial revolution. 
• Dewey wrote extensively about the critical role community, democracy, and experience play in shaping the educational process. He believed that education should prepare kids to solve problems in a methodical fashion resulting from careful observation and previous experience . 
• during the 20th century A.C Gilbert made products like building materials, chemistry sets, microscopes, magic tricks and model trains. 
• Seymour papert's life work has ben creating tools, theories, and coercion free learning environments that inspire children to construct powerful ideas through firsthand experience.
• when piaget sought a greater understanding of how children construct mathematical knowledge, he hired a mathematician papers. 
• it was during his first day at MIT that paper began tinkering with computers and over the next few years he and minks collaborated on pioneering work in the filed of artificial intelligence. 
• in 1968 his interest in mathematics, learning and computing led to the invention of the logo programming language along with Cynthia solomon Wally feurzig and others. 

13-2 Artist that is a maker

Seymour Papert was first a professor at MIT as a mathematician and a computer scientist and he was conducting research to let children have a chance to write and make graphics. The Logo programming language was created to have built -in computation in children's toys. The programming language was created to inform people about support of logo-based software for learning and teaching. He created logo as a tool to improve the way kids think and solve problems. The small robot called logo turtle was developed and children solved problems in environment of play. The research group is to strengthen the ability to learn knowledge. He inserted language or program that kids can learn, and they can also have functionality for expert users.

13-1 Deren's presentation

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b) My lamp was useful because I got to learn more about circuits in a multi-colored senses. It enhances light, and I don't think that it replaces anything. My recipe didn't work well during the workshop along with the light because I have an iPhone and Apple phone didn't seem to respond well to the lamp. The workshop was great, Deren was helpful, it is just that the gadgets were not responding well with the photon board. 

11-6 Text on "20 things to do with a Computer"

Twenty things to do with a Computer

by Seymour paper

• the transaction between the computer and the kid will be some kind of conversation or questions and answers n words or numbers.
• cybernetic animal is made by grey walter, and English neurophysiologist. 
• his turtles had life like behavior patterns built into its wiring diagrams. 
• the turtle can send signals back to the computer. these signals from a teletype need no special programming to make the turtle talk to the computer. 
• Turtles have effector organs.
• When we type left 90 on the console keyboard and then the turtle rotates 90 degrees on its central axis to the left. 
• the kids can make drawings with the turtle draw. 
• for the turtle to have behavior patterns, it should have a number of sockets, which you could plug on and off device such as a micro switch, or light detector or whatever you think up. such device is cheap and easy to make. 
• the turtle language provides remarkable formal  system for describing many geometric objects. 
• the procedures involves different inputs, first is the side size and the second is the angle. 
• you can also draw spirals, poly to draw spirals and make small additions to line 3

12-4 My 3D lesson plan

Lesson Plan: 3D printing

Target Audience: High School students

Tinkercad/ 3D Makerbot

This activity is to teach students about different shapes to make in Adobe Illustrator, and how to implement each shape into Tinkercad, unless classmates just want to go straight to Tinkercad. Even if classmates want to start with Tinkercad rather than Adobe Illustrator, they will still be introduced to all the tools that Illustrator has to offer. Students will start the 3D printing process once they finish designing their shapes on Tinkercad and Illustrator. Students are to create a complex shaped design that represents their soul, that will then be reproduced as a necklace chain.

Materials:

Makerbot

Adobe Illustrator

Sketch pad & pencil

Tinkercad

Overview: 
Students will describe what represent a complex abstract shape of their lives/soul

Example: I chose the Arab shapes for my necklace because I had a great time in Dubai. 

Using their sketch design of their shape, then reproducing it on Illustrator and Tinkercad, then they will make their 3D prints.

This will take around 6 class sessions to do this.

1 class for their pitch and sketch

2 classes for their Adobe Illustrator explorations

2 classes to finalize in Tinkercad

1 class to 3D print.

12-4 Part 1 lesson plan feedback

The first person's lesson plan that I decided to go over was Jihyun's lesson plan. I didnt quite understand it, because she said that they would be using digital collaging but she didnt specify what softwares that they will using, she also said that they would have four clases to do this, which I am afraid is not enough time as well, and she did not specify if they have experience or not on thesesoftwares, she also said that they will have ten minutes of a materials exploration activity, is that once again enough time for them to be using a software that they might or might not know how to use in ten minutes time. She said that they will be manipulating the same image to look like it has been through history, What image are they using also what does she mean effects through history,.Thereis a lot that needs to be polished in the lesson, I'm just afraid that it is not clear enough.

-Jess
Other person that I wanted to assess was Nina's lesson.


The second person that I decided to assess was Nina Borland"s.
I love her lesson plan with Laser Cutting and Letter forms.
She explained what program the High schoolers were using, along with the size of the paper. She included all materials as well as a sketch pad &pencil, with the laser cutter and the black 12x12 mat board. I love how she chose an experience like an adjective which could be universal with the high school kids, to be the spark for his lesson. The students will basically make the font of the letter, to be associated with the adjective that it represents. It is very creative and relates to the high schoolers' experience. Attached you will find a copy of Nina's lesson plan:

Lesson Plan: Laser Cutting and Letter Forms

Target Audience: High School students

Digital Imaging/Graphic Design Class

This activity introduces students to the basics of illustrator and laser cutting, while also introducing the fundamentals of graphic design. By working with a single letter, we ask students to consider the power of composition, typeface, shape and line to change how text is perceived. 

Materials:

Black 12x12 mat board

Laser Cutter

Adobe Illustrator

Sketch pad & pencil

Overview: 
1. Students are asked to pick an adjective that you feel describes you or part of your character 

Example: I choose the word spunky to describe a part of my personality. 

2. Using the first letter of their name, student are challenged to design this letter in a way that represents that adjective. Students are asked to create 50 thumbnail sketches of possible letterforms.

Example: My name is Nina, so I will draw the letter N in a way that gives off a spunky vibe, perhaps slanted or curvy or with embellishments. I might want to trace a letterform from an existing typeface and perhaps add embellishments to it.

3. In class, students will be guided through the basics of Adobe Illustrator, learning how to image trace their design and alter it using the pen tool. As a class, we will prepare their file for the laser cutter.

4. Each student will get to laser cut their letter on black matboard, so that they have a thick, standalone letter.

5. Students will given a 10x10 white square in which to place their letter. They must decide which placement within that square best represents their adjective. Students will be encouraged to play around with placement and really explore how different applications (upside-down, backwards, centered, falling off the page etc.) change the effect of their letterform.

Example: To reinforce the spunkiness of my N, I might place it on a slant, with perhaps just one corner of the letter touching the edge of the square, or maybe I would let it float in the space at a cheerful angle.

12-3 Initial idea for my final project--

For the dice that I rolled to get something for my final project, the words that I got were: Body, Graphic/Fashion Design, and Stop Motion Animation.

I'm thinking of doing a 3D of some sort with a type of fashion whether it be an earring, a small bag, a necklace, or something easy like a neck collar necklace or an arm sleved 3D piece, then I could make a 3D animation of me trying on different outfits with it in a Stop motion animation I'm thinking that that could be fun :)

Something cool and highly designed like this

then the stop motion could be about different profiles that I take with it or poses that I do with it.

12-2 Research an artist that uses physical computing in their practice.

Tim Hawkinson was born n 1960 in San Fransisco California. His art features creations of meditations on nature, machines, mortality, the body and human consciousness. He loves to use store-bought materials, handcrafted objects, and machines to shift familiar subject matter off-kilter, creating a visual conundrums of deeper meaning. His works ranges in huge sizes to microscopic pieces created from nail clippings or eggshells.
During his exhibition called "Counterclockwise" shown at the Pace gallery, Tim uses kinetic sculptures that result to playful wit and mechanically complex. he loves giving life to working parts . In his "Like World Clock", he uses elements found in medicine cabinets to indicate time and day in different world cities. "In Ranting Mop Head", the motor pushes air against a reed set onto an upturned mop to stimulate the whine of an almost human voice.

Here below: You will see "World Clock" (2012), where he uses clock motors to tie into the different items found in a medicine cabinet.

His work in "Ranting mop Head,"

The motor pushes against a reed to make a whine human voice,

12-1 Pop up card

For my pop-up card, I made a love letter to my boyfriend Steven.
The process was a fun one in class, I had fun figuring out how to make the lights turn on, and how to connect the LED tape, in order for them to receive the message from the battery source. I went through some frustrations in class when I noticed that that the light sources was not strong enough to be lit, but then when Richard my teacher came up to me in class to test out the light source of the light, and I saw that the LED lights were lighting up just a tiny bit, we realized together that it was the battery source that was not strong enough. Hannah, one of my classmates came up to me and was kind enough to let me borrow her extra flat round battery and "Voila" there was a light source. Then I unfortunatly covered up my circuit process, with was is now come to be a love letter with the hearts shining with the light source under them. i decorated my card with hearts that I cut out with pink construction paper, and then covered around it with a dark brown construction paper so that the pink construction paper can be illuminated even more, then I added my cover page and spine for the book, and the backing of the card with red construction paper. I was really proud of myself for taping the circuits together and how i decided to decorate the card. I then wrote a very very sweet love letter to Steve, my boyfriend showing my love for being there for me through this hardous process of not only being in a rough city like New York, but to also be in graduate school wher teachers are assessing your work all the time, and you are constantly following deadlines.
Below you will see photos of my Love Letter: