Useful sources about digital creative education (ENG)

In this page, I’d like to share some sources that can be useful for those who are approaching creative digital education for the first time and are looking for sources to start their journey!

Bio-hack stuff

Bio-hacking is one of the many interesting applications of digital fabrication and more generally the makers movement. I think is one of the coolest applications for schools. Here some interesting links:

  • Bio-Hack Academy: http://biohackacademy.github.io/. This is an amazing course on how to create biolab with digital fabrication machines. I would recommend this to all schools! For younger students, a great start would be to create a DIY microscope: [http://biohackacademy.github.io/bha6/class/4/])http://biohackacademy.github.io/bha6/class/4/) and indeed this is what we propose to kids in the Teens4Kids curriculum.
  • Bio Academy: http://bio.academany.org/. This is quite advanced course. Nevertheless it’s super cool to see all potential applications in biology.
  • foldscope: ultra-affordable, paper microscope.

Robotics

  • WeTurtle (ITA): this organization lists very nice tutorials for teachers link.

Makers projects

Creative pedagogy

  • Learning-Creative-Learning: Great course offered each year by MIT! The course is available in different languages and it is a great source for people that want to leanr about creative pedagogy: link.

Coding

  • Scratch is of course the most famous tool for kids to learn the basics of coding. An interesting application to start with are scratch cards, that provide some ideas to experiment with scratch;
  • Snap

Books

  • Makers
  • Mindstorms

Papers

Profiles to follow