4.3 Field Activity and Guest Speakers¶
GUEST SPEAKERS - ERIN E. RILEY AND KIRK LIN
FIELD ACTIVITY EXPECTATIONS
Guest Speaker - Erin E. Riley¶
**Arts and Digital Fabrication
NY - 26 year veteran teacher - currently teaching in K-12 girls school.
Grant to purchase all of the DF machines.
Erin was charged with combining DF with Art.
Process is the NEW PRODUCT! K-12 program was created.
First projects came out of the arts - Sketchbooks and Book Art…
Circuits brought into sketches.
Laser covers for books using wood w/a living hinge or leather.
Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape was used in the design phase.
Turtle Art to help with drawings.
CNC machine and router with sharpie markers to make drawings.
Using light and long exposure photography to draw in space
Using robots to draw with light
Printmaking and Stamping -
DF machines help (laser or 3D) - excellent with showing positive and negative space.
Inkpress/rubbing/laser etching/stamp making
Using the vinyl cutter to make silk screen prints
Battleship linoleum
Marble wood to laser cut and amke boxes, etc…
Instagram - ga_edl Art and DF Projects
Guest Speaker - Kirk Lin¶
**DF and Crafts in Taipei
Senior HS teacher and Maker elective course 2 Maker Spaces - one for design and one for making Design Process 1. Design Thinking - Guide students to create thier own work 2. Design and Make - Brainstorm and Make 3. Share - Share your work!
Maker Fair - San Fransisco CA
Projects: Fortune-Telling Ox Cart Helping the Visually Impaired to enjoy an Art Museum National Palace Museum Investigate and research - Design - Create - Evaluate - Share
My Final Project¶
Colloboration: I worked with the teacher at Hintta School in Finland where I am interning. She provided me with some fantastic feedback: * Pre-lesson activity was good and suggestion of using notecards instead of a worksheet. * Wifi check - an important factor in robotics! Good to have a back up plan of using legos to build cars that can move and race so one is not reliant upon the robotics. * Consider adding time feature to those who are ready for more.
The instructional challenges I faced: -Trouble with the wifi connection making it impossible to program the robotics -An active student who didn’t want to take the time to complete the paper part of the lesson (writing and rewriting the code). -A student who struggled with reading and knowing the mathematical vocabulary.
Interdisciplinary Lesson - Includes: -Common goal - measurement -Computer programming, mathematics, and vocabulary (bilingual). Additionally, the lesson activates the speaking and listening standard. Moving this lesson to be transdicsiplinary would include having students consider ways of using measurment robots to solve everyday problems. Designing a robot to do work/perform a task would take this from an interdisciplinary to a transdiscipliary lesson.
Using AI: -I used AI to help me determine the curriculum standards that my lesson plan aligned. -I also asked AI to help me to find lessons on measurement with robotics (of which I could not find any like mine).
Reflections on the FLA:
-Developing a broader view of how technology is used in the classroom, globally.
-Ideas of how to use digital fabrications with students & connected to content.
-Developing first hand the skills of how to access my own grit and perserverence in my own learning as it related to digital fabrication learning, creating a website, publishing lessons - all this while living and adjusting to a different culture (Finnish) and working to attain a residence permit in order to complete my work.
-Observing teachers and schools that already use these technologies helped me to envision how this might weave into my own school system and practices back in the US.