Update: Part 3 on disciplinary cross-pollination! Part II of my loooooong review of the Dept of Ed report on “Expanding Evidence” is up at Edsurge. (Part I here). This section is about what design research can look like in education action. I walk through some of the case studies in the report and link continual… Read more »
Posts Categorized: design
Boomerang! (Almost…): 30 Days of Creativity, Day 30
When I was in 8th grade, I had a successful stint as maker of wooden boomerangs. As in, like, I could take a piece of baltic birch plywood and turn it into an apparatus that would fly back to you in a loping elipse when you chucked it into the air. So I figured we’d… Read more »
Review: HTML5 for Web Designers—The wittest technical book I’ve read lately
HTML5 For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first eBook that I’ve read cover-to-cover. The publishers say that they want the books to be short enough to digest on a plane flight from New York to Chicago. (More on their innovative publishing model here.) Their claim holds… Read more »
The Uses of Duct Tape (30 Days of Creativity, Day 26)
I gave a recent birthday gift that included an iPod nano and the Nike Plus kit that turns it into a little run-tracking GPS device. Here’s the thing: the sensor chip component of the set, which is supposed to fit on your shoe, is a smooth plastic token the size of a quarter (right): It… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I am the Program Manager for New Classrooms in Washington, DC. (Though opinions expressed on this site are entirely my own.) I taught 7th-grade English in Prince George’s County, Maryland as a member of the 2010 Teach For America corps. I write about literacy & edtech here—along with stuff like industrial archeology and bread baking.