Darr; Skip to Main Content. Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom. By Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary Stager. Using technology to make, repair, or customize the things we need brings engineering, design, and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. Latest Invent to Learn blog posts. Subscribe to blog posts via email.

Then, instead of using the computer keyboard buttons to play the piano, you can hook up the Makey Makey to something fun, like bananas, and the bananas become your piano keys. Then you can play Pacman by touching the drawing. Makey Makey is an invention kit for the 21st century. How Does it Work? She inven.

December is een goed moment om terug te kijken op de gebeurtenissen van het afgelopen jaar. Dit jaar kunt u dat ook in de klas doen, met de Teleblik nieuwsquiz. En met een kant-en-klare lesbrief. In de speciale nieuwsquiz worden aan de hand van fragmenten uit het Jeugdjournaal en Schooltv-weekjournaal vragen gesteld over het belangrijkste nieuws van 2011.

WaaZam is a telepresence system that supports social engagement through creative play. My PhD examines new ways to support family connectedness at a distance. An interactive table designed for community-oriented play experiences in NYC and an architecture exhibit in Istanbul with a focus on ergonomics, social factors, and aesthetics. PoCoMo is an implimentation of collaborative mobile interaction with projected characters. We present novel social games, embedded in the environment.

Singing Fingers Lets You Finger Paint with Sound. Make a sound while moving your finger to record a sound-drawing. While whistling a note can give you a specific color.

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Jay is part of a proposed SXSW panel. Please pop over and give it a thumbs up. Jenn Choi gives Makey Makey a huge shoutout. The latest generative work from Chaitra Records. Appropriate for grade levels MS to HS. For the full lesson plan.