1. Principles and practices¶
This week has been super intense with my moving to Boston and getting started with the Fab Academy. I had never used the terminal before and learning the basics of how to run the terminal and use GIT has been super cool! I can’t believe I am creating my own website and I can’t wait to use it to document my work and also to create a repository for all interesting links and resources for creative education!
Part of the work I did this week is under Project Management week. In this page, I only present some ideas about my final project. I created this page to keep track of the creation process for my final project: Creation Process. So, here I put only my first thoughts on my project idea, while more info can be found in that page.
Final project: some ideas¶
My final project will be about the Teens4Kids project I am running in Sicily. The project is about supporting students to become digital creators and it leverages on a learning-by-doing approach (in each course students learn by making something with digital fabrication) and a peer-to-peer approach (courses are designed to be thaught by teenagers to kids).
My idea is to create a new workshop that teenagers can teach to kids and that support learning in the traditional school curriculum. This would add up to other workshops we are already offering (which I will all list in the T4K page) in which both teenagers and kids would learn how about digital fabrication: coding, 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC, …
The workshop will be about creating a solar system! I am not sure yet how the whole thing would work, but I was thinking that perhaps the planets could be 3D printer, the structure could be laser cutted (or milled) and then I can think about some way to make the planets move (arduino, magnets, gears..)
In parallel with the work on this project, I will set up the Teens4Kids and list there all sources which might be useful for schools that wanna start promoting creative digital education.