My partner Becky and I met online to discuss our project together. We are doing two different lesson plans but they both connect with our big idea and the technique of glitch art. We both really enjoyed working with glitch art in class. We wanted to find a way to make glitch art more controlled […]
FabLearn Conference 2020 Extra Credit
“We believe that the kind of systemic change necessary to prepare our young people for the demands of the 21st century requires that young people take the lead in changing it”. Young makers presenting- smart air-purifying robots, a combination of air purifiers and autonomous mobile robots, purifying systems, mobile, and obstacle avoidance systems. Collects small […]
Leah Buechley on Diversity in Maker Ed Extra Credit
Describe some of the problems she discusses regarding implicit bias in STEM and Maker Ed. Who are the makers? Who are shown as makers on magazine covers? 85% men and boys, 15% women and girls, 0% people of color. Underrepresented minorities. Editorial staff- men 87%, women 13%, people of color 0% Article authors- men 85%, […]
Metacognition: The Art Classroom as Thinking Lab Extra Credit
What is metacognition and what might it look like in art classrooms? Metacognition is the ability to monitor one’s thinking and learning. Metacognition can be explained as “the act of stepping back from a task to name and frame what happens within it”. It helps learners develop positive dispositions toward learning and generates engagement and […]
October is Digital Art Month in NYC! Extra Credit
This website is so cool and interesting! I learned what digital art month in NYC was and what kind of art they exhibit. I love the Instagram feed section, the art is so cool. I like how a lot of it is digital art in a real setting, in public. It’s interesting to see how […]
Exploring ATTinys Extra Credit
I have read about ATTinys in a previous response post. I found them very interesting! Some things I have learned about them: (Without knowing it, we see ATtiny85s in many items such as alarm clocks, microwave ovens, washing machines, cameras, tablets, notebooks, mobile phones, and refrigerators. They are inexpensive, small, and powerful which makes them […]
Scratch Lesson Plan!
Here is my scratch lesson plan sample! My big idea is human and nature and I decided I would have my students create a choice game that allows the player to pick different options that have to do with the environment. In this sample, the player makes decisions that could end up helping the environment […]
Final Project Research
What are you exploring? Describe your process and progress so far. We are building on the glitch art project we did at the beginning of the semester. We want to expand it more with a tutorial we found, using photoshop we can control the “glitch” a lot more than just manipulating the actual code. We […]
Utopia/Dystopia Collaborative Game
Reflect on you and your group’s design thinking process. What was your contribution? Going into this project, my group and I already knew it was going to be challenging to create a scratch game with four people. We thought about splitting the work individually and having everyone do one section, however, we wanted to get […]
Response Post #8
Why did you pick this chapter? I chose a chapter called “Launching Boats” because the chapter explained how important play and exploration is. The author of the article compares teaching to the act of launching boats. ” We can think of the work we do in our maker spaces as a similar process to preparing […]