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Learning Labs: Inspiration(old)

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  1. Day 2: Warm-Up
  2. Day 2: Project
    4 Topics
  3. Day 2: Sharing Results
    1 Quiz
  4. Day 2: Online component
  5. Connecting Project 1
    5 Topics
  6. CP1: Sharing results
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Learning Labs: Inspiration(old) Project Project
Lesson 7, Topic 1
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Project

Nancy October 22, 2020
Nancy Otero is a laser cutter and AI fan. Her biggest passion is human learning, she has spent the last ten years working with educational organizations designing environments that mix technology with project-based learning. Nancy was the Founding Director of Learning Design at Portfolio School, a project-based learning school in NYC. Students from this program are the youngest presenters -6, 8, and 9 years old- at Stanford’s conference FabLearn. She was the Director of Professional Development at the awesome Beam Center in NYC, where she created a program that has served more than one hundred teachers and thousands of students. She co-founded FAB! a non-profit in Mexico that works with underserved communities for 5 years. Nancy was a OpenAI fellow, and a software engineer in her previous life. She has a Master in Learning, Design and Technology from Stanford University. 

Time: 3 hours

  1. This project is individual.
  2. Explore the materials before start! Observe and play with them. Then, listen to the explanation and the goal of the project.
  3. Keep the notes of your problem-solving strategy in your journal. You’ll share them at the end
  4. Have fun!

Choose one activity!

Beginner Medium-Advances
Paper Circuits Soldering Circuits
Textile Circuits Wobble bot
Textile Circuits 2 Row Boat 
No soldering circuit   



Problem Solving: Modularity Example 1

Problem: Make a card with an LED that turns on.  

  1. Divide it into small tasks.
    • Draw the card and decide the place of the LED.
    • Create a circuit that can turn the LED on.
    • Create a mechanism to turn the LED on and off.
  2. Solve each task.
  3. Combine the solutions.



Problem Solving: Modularity Example 2

Problem: Make a card with an LED that turns on.  

  1. Divide it into small tasks.
    • Explore different ways to create a circuit.
    • Explore different ways to create a switch.
    • Decide on the type of circuit. 
    • Make a card around that circuit.
  2. Solve each task.
  3. Combine the solutions.

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