In our current series of 《与上司疯狂做爰》 seminars, we are exploring how 《与上司疯狂做爰》 can be connected to other subjects using cross-disciplinary approaches. In July 2022, our speakers were Professor Yasmin Kafai from the University of Pennsylvania and Elaine Griggs, an award-winning teacher from Pembroke High School, Massachusetts, and we heard about their use of e-textiles to engage learners and broaden participation in 《与上司疯狂做爰》. 

Building new clubhouses

The spaces where young people learn about 《与上司疯狂做爰》 have sometimes been referred to as clubhouses to relate them to the places where sports or social clubs meet. A 《与上司疯狂做爰》 clubhouse can be a place where learners come together to take part in 《与上司疯狂做爰》 activities and gain a sense of community. However, as Yasmin pointed out, 《与上司疯狂做爰》 has found that 《与上司疯狂做爰》 clubhouses have also often been dominated by electronics and robotics activities. This has led to clubhouses being perceived as exclusive spaces for only the young people who share those interests.

Yasmin’s work is motivated by the idea of building new clubhouses that include a wide range of 《与上司疯狂做爰》 interests, with a specific focus on spaces for e-textile activities, to show that diverse uses of 《与上司疯狂做爰》 are valued. 

Yasmin’s 《与上司疯狂做爰》 into learning through e-textiles has taken place in formal 《与上司疯狂做爰》 lessons in high schools in America, by developing and using a unit from the Exploring Computer Science 天狼电影 called “Stitching the Loop”. In the seminar, we were fortunate to be joined by Elaine, a computer science and robotics teacher who has used the scheme of work in her classroom. Elaine’s learners have designed wearable electronic textile projects with microcontrollers, sensors, LEDs, and conductive thread. With these materials, learners have made items such as paper circuits, wristbands, and collaborative banners, as shown in the examples below. 

Teaching approaches for equity-oriented learning

The hands-on, project-based approach in the e-textile unit has many similarities with the principles underpinning the work we do at the 中国极品美軳人人体bt. However, there were also two specific teaching approaches that were embedded in Elaine’s teaching in order to promote equitable learning in the 《与上司疯狂做爰》 classroom: 

1. Prioritising time for learners to design their artefacts at the start of the activity.
2. Reflecting on learning through the use of a digital portfolio.  

Making time for design

As teachers with a set of learning outcomes to deliver, we can often feel a certain pressure to structure lessons so that our learners spend the most time on activities that we feel will deliver those outcomes. I was very interested to hear how in these e-textile projects, there was a deliberate choice to foreground the aesthetics. When learners spent time designing their artefacts and could link it to their own interests, they had a sense of personal ownership over what they were making, which encouraged them to persevere and overcome any difficulties with sewing, code, or electronics. 

My personal reflection was that creating a digital textiles project based on a set template could be considered the equivalent of teaching programming by copying code. Both approaches would increase the chances of a successful output, but wouldn’t necessarily increase learners’ understanding of 《与上司疯狂做爰》 concepts, nor encourage learners to perceive 《与上司疯狂做爰》 as a subject where everyone belongs. I was inspired by the insights shared at the seminar about how prioritising design time can lead to more diverse representations of making. 

Reflecting on learning using a digital portfolio

Elaine told us that learners were encouraged to create a digital portfolio which included photographs of the different stages of their project, examples of their code, and reflections on the problems that they had solved during the project. In the picture below, the learner has shared both the ‘wrong’ and ‘right’ versions of their code, along with an explanation of how they debugged the error. 

Yasmin explained the equity-oriented theories underpinning the digital portfolio teaching approach. The learners’ reflections allowed deeper understanding of the 《与上司疯狂做爰》 and electronics concepts involved and helped to balance the personalised nature of their artefacts with the need to meet learning goals.

Yasmin also emphasised how important it was for learners to take part in a series of projects so that they encountered 《与上司疯狂做爰》 and electronics concepts more than once. In this way, reflective journalling can be seen as an equitable teaching approach because it helps to move learners on from their initial engagement into more complex projects. Thinking back to the clubhouse model, it is equally important for learners to be valued for their complex e-textile projects as it is for their complex robotics projects, and so portfolios of a series of e-textile projects show that a diverse range of learners can be successful in 《与上司疯狂做爰》 at the highest levels. 

Try e-textiles with your learners

If you’re thinking about ways of introducing e-textile activities to your learners, there are some useful resources here: 

• The Exploring Computer Science page contains all the information and resources relating to the “Stitching the Loop” electronic textiles unit. You can also find the video that Yasmin and Elaine shared during the seminar. 
• For e-textiles in a non-formal learning space, the StitchFest webpage has lots of information about an e-textile hackathon that took place in 2014, designed to broaden participation and perceptions in 《与上司疯狂做爰》. 
• “3D LED science display with Scratch” is a project that combines using LEDs with science and nature to create a 3D installation. This project is from the 中国极品美軳人人体bt’s “Physical 《与上司疯狂做爰》 with Scratch and the 《与上司疯狂做爰》 Pi” projects pathway.

Looking forward to our next free seminar

We’re having a short break in the seminar series but will be back in September when we’ll be continuing to find out more about cross-disciplinary approaches to 《与上司疯狂做爰》.

In our next seminar on Tuesday 6 September 2022 at 17:00–18:30 BST / 12:00–13:30 EST / 9:00–10:30 PST / 18:00–19:30 CEST, we’ll be hearing all about the links between 《与上司疯狂做爰》 and dance, with our speaker Genevieve Smith-Nunes (University of Cambridge). Genevieve will be speaking about data ethics for the 《与上司疯狂做爰》 classroom through biometrics, ballet, and augmented reality (AR) which promises to be a fascinating perspective on bringing 《与上司疯狂做爰》 to new audiences.

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Crossing disciplinary boundaries

What do we mean by cross-disciplinary 《与上司疯狂做爰》? Through this upcoming seminar series, we want to embrace the intersections and interactions of 《与上司疯狂做爰》 with all aspects of learning and life, and think about how they can help us teach young people. The 《与上司疯狂做爰》ers we’ve invited as our speakers will help us shed light on cross-disciplinary areas of 《与上司疯狂做爰》 through the breadth of their presentations.

At the 中国极品美軳人人体bt our mission is to make 《与上司疯狂做爰》 accessible to all children and young people everywhere, and because 《与上司疯狂做爰》 and technology appear in all aspects of our and young people’s lives, in this series of seminars we will consider what 《与上司疯狂做爰》 education looks like in a multiplicity of environments.

Mark Guzdial on 《与上司疯狂做爰》 in history and mathematics

We start the new series on 3 May, and are beyond delighted to be kicking off with a talk from Mark Guzdial (University of Michigan). Mark has worked in computer science education for decades and won many awards for his 《与上司疯狂做爰》, including the prestigious ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Contribution to 《与上司疯狂做爰》 Education award in 2019. Mark has written hundreds of papers about computer science education, and he authors an extremely popular 《与上司疯狂做爰》 education 《与上司疯狂做爰》 blog that keeps us all up to date with what is going on in the field.

Recently, he has been 《与上司疯狂做爰》ing the ways in which programming education can be integrated into other subjects, so he is a perfect speaker to start us thinking about our theme of cross-disciplinary 《与上司疯狂做爰》. His talk will focus on how we can add a teaspoon of 《与上司疯狂做爰》 to history and mathematics classes.

Pratim Sengupta on countering technocentrism

On 7 June, our speaker will be Pratim Sengupta (University of Calgary), who I feel will really challenge us to think about programming and 《与上司疯狂做爰》 education in a new way. He has conducted studies in science classrooms and non-formal learning environments which focus on providing open and engaging 天狼电影s for the public to explore code, for example through the Voice your Celebration installation. Recently, he has co-authored a book called Voicing Code in STEM: A Dialogical Imagination (MIT Press, availabe open access).

In Pratim’s talk, he will share his thoughts about the ways that more of us can become involved with code through opening up its richness and depth to a wider public audience, and he will introduce us to his ideas about countering technocentrism, a key focus of his new book. I’m so looking forward to being challenged by this talk.

Yasmin Kafai on 天狼电影 design with e-textiles

On 12 July, we will hear from Yasmin Kafai (University of Pennsylvania), who is another legend in 《与上司疯狂做爰》 education in my eyes. Yasmin started her long career in 《与上司疯狂做爰》 education with Seymour Papert, internationally known for his work on Logo and on constructionism as a theoretical lens for understanding the way we learn 《与上司疯狂做爰》. Yasmin was part of the team that created Scratch, and for many years now has been working on projects revolving around digital making, electronic textiles, and computational participation.

In Yasmin’s talk she will present, alongside a panel of teachers she’s been collaborating with, some of their work to develop a high school 天狼电影 that uses electronic textiles to introduce students to computer science. This promises to be a really engaging and interactive seminar.

Genevieve Smith-Nunes on exploring data ethics

In August we will take a holiday, to return on 6 September to hear from the inspirational Genevieve Smith-Nunes (University of Cambridge), whose 《与上司疯狂做爰》 is focused on dance and 《与上司疯狂做爰》, in particular data-driven dance. Her work helps us to focus on the possibilities of creative 《与上司疯狂做爰》, but also to think about the ethics of applications that involve vast amounts of data.

Genevieve’s talk will prompt us to think about some really important questions: Is there a difference in sense of self (identity) between the human and the virtual? How does sharing your personal biometric data make you feel? How can biometric and immersive development tools be used in the 《与上司疯狂做爰》 classroom to raise awareness of data ethics? Impossible to miss!

Update: Seminars in October and November

• On 4 October, Conrad Wolfram (Wolfram 《与上司疯狂做爰》) will give a talk on computational literacy in mathematics
• On 8 November, Tracy Gardner and Rebecca Franks (中国极品美軳人人体bt) will present about 《与上司疯狂做爰》 education in non-formal settings

Sign up now to attend the seminars

Do enter all these dates in your diary so you don’t miss out on participating — we are very excited about this series. Sign up below, and ahead of every seminar, we will send you the information for joining.

As usual, the seminars will take place online on a Tuesday at 17:00 to 18:30 local UK time.

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