DiResta: Inc. Clock Sign
I was asked to design and make the sign/clock for the Inc., a maker space at Solomon Schechter School
Education
Maker Education is such a valuable role. These stories will bring you the latest information and tales of maker educators who area spreading the maker mindset. Help others learn how to make things or how to think like a maker at makerspaces, schools, universities, and local communities. The importance of maker education can not be understated. We appreciate our educators.
Talkin’ Tinkering with the Masters of Automata
The Exploratorium Tinkering Studio invites all of you to join a Google Hangout this Friday, November 21st from 9am to 10:30am (Pacific time) to talk about one of their true specialties—Automata!—with some of their favorite masters of this art/technology. Joining the Tinkering Studio team will be a star-studded group: Artist Keith Newstead (whose pieces are at the top […]
Make Your Own Maps: DIY on GIS Day
Today’s the 15th annual GIS Day, “the annual salute to geospatial technology and its power to transform and better our lives” with over 700 events around the world. For example, in Indiana, drone-heads will collect GIS data with UAVs. WTH is GIS, you ask? GIS stands for Geographic Information System, or sometimes people call it geospatial information studies. It’s your […]
How to Rebuild Society (with the Survivor Library)
Rocky Rawlins’ Survivor Library stores digitized 19th- and early 20th-century texts on how to build important machines and infrastructure, aiming to help civilization “survive when technology doesn’t.”
STEAM Carnival – Fun and Learning
Isn’t it fantastic when fun is aligned with learning? That seems to be the design goal behind the STEAM Carnival, a production of Two Bit Circus. Recently they staged their event at the Port of Los Angeles to a sell-out crowd whereat all the glory of what they do was put out for the world to enjoy. Most of these playful […]
Teaching kids to program with wooden blocks
How do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience? How do you teach programming to children that can yet read or write?
You’re AMAZING, in an AWESOME sort of way.
Don’t get me wrong, I love to receive compliments. I even fish for them sometimes; “Did you enjoy our concert?” “Did you like the stew I made?” But it really struck a chord when I read Salman Khan’s blog from the Khan Academy website. The point of the blog is to explain why he will never […]
