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I just added some photos and videos of my students' projects. I teach Electronic Arts and Space Arts at the Nueva School. The kids make all kinds of interactive art projects that they are interested in. They begin by doing lots of research by looking at artists' work and makers' work to get an idea of what is out there. They not only study the style of each artist but also they research the technique and go in depth about how to make it and what does it mean.

Then we apply the design thinki… Continue

See Makezine.com blog for photos and story on last Saturday's Young Makers program at the Exploratorium in SF.

Fab Labs have gotten a lot of press, but have you heard of Fab Academy? It "provides instruction and supervises investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication." Perfect for those of you who have fabrication tools in schools.

This week, the Make: Online blog welcomed Shawn Wallace of AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island for the first in his series called "… Continue

As part of our ongoing quest to encourage more young people to exercise their innate curiosity and creativity by making things, this Saturday, January 30th, we're kicking off a four-month collaboration with the Exploratorium's… Continue

"A decade ago, Lawrence Grossman, former president of
both NBC News and PBS, and Newton Minow, former chairman of the FCC,
proposed that the government set up a multi-billion dollar trust that
would [1]act as a 'venture capital fund' to research educational
technologies for schools, libraries and museums. Congress has finally
approved the idea, and grants could start rolling by this fall. Dubbed
the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital
Technologies, it should be to ed… Continue