The advent of relatively affordable computing and telecommunications has made possible a sequence of dramatic changes in colleges and schools. This book is intended to draw attention to the potential role that technology can play in helping schools and colleges transform teaching and learning through design-based curricula. Observations and recommendations are based on practice rather than on theory. This collection of essays conveys a promise that education can become an activity dominated less by the lecturer and powered more by students able to spend their time working on the challenging, creative activities known as designing. Topics discussed include: using professional tools to transform the curriculum; developing tools for novice designers; learning to think like a designer; next steps; the future of CAD; software to improve academic writing; algorithm designing; and laboratories for science experiments.
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Across the curriculum, in college and in schools, faculty members are asking their students to do more designing: A first-year engineering student empties a box of balsa, dowels, and rubber bands and wonders how to create a cart that will automatically follow a "figure-eight" course without veering or breaking down. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Across the curriculum, in college and in schools, faculty members are asking their students to do more designing: A first-year engineering student empties a box of balsa, dowels, and rubber bands and wonders how to create a cart that will automatically follow a "figure-eight" course without veering or breaking down. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electronic design studio, genetics problem solving, computer science instruction, extensive designing, move top card, basic writing students, algorithmic problem solving, constructionist learning, tutorial advice, experimental students, strategic simulations, simple dominance, instructional software, logo programming, experimental children, experimental class, fractions knowledge, basic writers, novice designers, cross rules, designing skills, pattern hypothesis, anniversary collection, phenotypic data, algorithmic solution Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Media Laboratory, Project Headlight, Academic Press, Carnegie-Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Beloit College, Daily All, Technical Report, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yale University, Academic Computing, Genetics Construction Kit, New Haven, Technology Study Group, Agenda Item, Apple Computer, Chapel Hill, Cognitive Science, Diane Balestri, Englewood Cliffs, Get Player, International Conference, Luke Hohmann, National Science Foundation New!
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- William Morris (Past Masters) by Peter Stansky on page 143, and page 156
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 152
- Professional Responsibility (Siegel's Series) by Lazar Emanuel on page 137
- Higher Learning by Harvard University Press on page 156
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 152
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