Lesson 7,
Topic 1
In Progress
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
- This project is individual.
- Explore the materials before start! Observe and play with them. Then, listen to the explanation and the goal of the project.
- Keep the notes of your problem-solving strategy in your journal. You’ll share them at the end
- Have fun!
Choose one activity!
Beginner | Medium-Advances |
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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.
- 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.
- Solve each task.
- Combine the solutions.
Problem Solving: Modularity Example 2
Problem: Make a card with an LED that turns on.
- 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.
- Solve each task.
- Combine the solutions.
Quizzes