14/1- Reading takeaway & The importance of circuitry

  The little circuits that Becca and I created in class. So fun! 

Tap tap, that is what I start thinking about circuits. I had such a fun time playing with the tape, and the circuits, and seeing how it is that you can create light. (I wanted to even try making movement, but that will be the next time. Becca and I were playing around with circuitry and it got me thinking how easy and playful it is to use maker, tinkering, or electronics can be so helpful for classrooms. It adds this extra awe level into how to create an artwork. As an art teacher, I believe it is important to have much openness into problem-solving, or innovation. 

                         

One takeaway was about the Fabrication Labs in schools. The essay is from Paulo Blikstein. In the reading there is a section about why do we need digital fabrication labs in our

schools? I feel like fab labs open up a lot of doors when having them in schools. Also, like it says in the reading,

because of having this space, students can focus into testing out new ideas in order to be more innovative. Design and innovation

come hand to hand in fab labs and this determines how much play there is when using the space. It just has to be given to students in the

right way, not ass a set of rules, but more as an extension of their ideas. Ideas will happen very quickly, and sporadically when given the time to

play.

The second takeaway is from the section in the Book Invent to Learn from Martinez & Stager. In this section, they talk about and Insanely brief history

of Making. I find this so fun and appealing, because it brings out inventors of the past, such as Da Vinci, Rosseau, Pestalozi, the famous Piaget and Dewey (who they did

so much for our own field of art + education). Another individual is Seymound Paper, which is a new name to me, but he was one of the key persons that made the Maker

movement be part of schools.

Paper believed that the use of computers given by the schools was very close minded, and it was needed more openness in order to have a good education in regards

to technology. His ideas started in the 1970's, and other person were inventing and innovating even before. (Da Vindi is one of my favorite persons, inventors,

artists that has ever been, I even dressed up like him when I was in 3rd grade to give a talk about all of his inventions). Overall, I wonder if the insanely brief history of

Making was made in that way in order to be more simple, and have the readers understand better, or if maybe this is all the history there is.

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