Readings and Responses

<aside> 💬 Readings:

• Leah B. EYEO presentation
• Arvind Gupta
• Mid-term: Ref: https://vimeo.com/566611195 </aside>

Arvind Gupta

Children learn by doing - by touching, feeling, cutting, sticking -- pulling things apart, putting things together.

Leah Buechley Presentation

• “Make” ecosystem
  • Make magazine
  • Maker Fair
  • Maker movement: sense of sth new and exciting
• Who are “makers”?
  • under-represented groups 0%
  • audience 80% male median age 44 97% college degree robot kits are $$$ - rich white guys
  • electronics - vehicles - robots - rockets - music (by popularity)
• Why so?
  • language uses to promote your event - promise to be “open” is not followed through on
  • under represented good examples of “makers”:
    • low rider - new mexico, physical manifestation of real world data, history of hip hop, pottery engineering, electronics and paper - electronic stickers
• New Mexico: Hand and Machine

In Class - Papert vs Freire

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vmQ7xgIj9o9v-W4WKD3576zWruTLAPkJ/view

man and woman are creatures of history