Our Children will Build the Future
The UIA Built Environment network aims to help Architects and Teachers everywhere show young people what makes good Architecture and a Sustainable environment. So that, as adult citizens, users, clients and decision-makers they may take an active part in shaping the world they live in, embracing both heritage and innovation in the creation of communities which provide a healthy and harmonious quality of life for all.
Hmmm, I wonder what we will be able to do with ours once we have it in January?
Khan Academy is an educational website that, as its tagline puts it, aims to let anyone “learn almost anything—for free.” Students, or anyone interested enough to surf by, can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site’s founder, Salman Khan, chattily discusses principles of math, science, and economics (with a smattering of social science topics thrown in). The videos are decidedly lo-fi, even crude: Generally seven to 14 minutes long, they consist of a voice-over by Khan describing a mathematical concept or explaining how to solve a problem while his hand-scribbled formulas and diagrams appear onscreen. Like the Wizard of Oz, Khan never steps from behind the curtain to appear in a video himself; it’s just Khan’s voice and some scrawly equations. In addition to these videos, the website offers software that generates practice problems and rewards good performance with videogame-like badges—for answering a “streak” of questions correctly, say, or mastering a series of algebra levels. (Carpenter has acquired 52 Earth badges in math, which require hours of toil to attain and at which his classmates gaze with envy and awe.)
Thanks to Angela for compiling a few vertical garden options for our consideration.
Thanks to our great students and colleagues, we’re well on our way to designing and implementing a vertical garden for the ILC. This addition to the ILC brings together elements of design (txs Serveh), trades (txs Rick), air quality, learning environments, belongingness (txs Angela), and curricular ties …
These images are from a facinating resturant in Cape Town, South Africa. Check out their site on urban farming – http://www.moyo.co.za/restaurant-moyo-va-waterfront/aquaponics.aspx
The internet, individual tablets, smart screens: will digital technology realize the promise of customized, student-centred education? The first in The Agenda’s Learning 2030 series, from the Communitech Hub in Kitchener, Ontario.
Technology starts out expensive, experiments with formats, then prices plummet as the technology settles and becomes an affordable product. Laser printers, when invented 1969, were $20,0000 but are now around 0.5% of that price, $100. This already happening with 3D printers. Sure, you can buy a $20,000 professional HP 3D printer but a $1200 3D printer is already available.
Donald Clark Plan B: 3D printers: gimmick or game changer
http://chronicle.com/article/3-D-Printers-Arent-Just-for/134440/
