Hi all,
http://www.ted.com/talks/emily_pilloton_teaching_design_for_change.html
and
http://www.projecthdesign.org/
are some good (inspirational) resources to take a look at. While I've
been thinking in terms of
build => observe => theory
we might want to ask how we can introduce some design process in the
electricity/electronics sequence, and have students thinking about how
what they learn and make can impact their immediate community (Berea
College) and/or their home communities.
That starts to look like
design => build => observe => theory => iterate => instantiate =>
theory (on multiple levels)
Past iteration, we can start thinking about instantiating designs in
the real world (in our community) and developing theories that
transcend just the mathematical, but bridge into the social.
Back to food prep and packing...
Cheers,
M