March 2011 Hackerspace Challenge
From Splatspace
- See [1] for guidelines
- Due 8PM EST 3/11/2011
Challenges in elementary education
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Project Focus
Currently, we're focusing on three projects.
- "Player Piano Pen": pen or car with LEDs and light sensors, reads and plays notes as it's rolled along a musical score
- bouncy ball that uses accelerometers and LEDs to teach kids about force and motion.
- Blocks: communicate w/ eachother to teach sets, arithmetic, etc
The Project Team
People who are definitely in:
- Alan Dipert (1-2 hours a week + a marathon: C programming, miscellany, CAD (sketchup and rhino)
- JC Sackett (2 hours a week + a marathon: arduino programming, software development (python, lua, ruby))
- Justis Peters (5 hours a week: project management, software development, and Arduino)
- Skippy Hope (2-3 hours a week + a marathon: C, perl, some Arduino, degree in music, has taught private lessons)
- Jeff Crews (2 hours a week until later: fabrication, CAD)
- Peter Reintjes (8 hours a week: electronics and PIC microcontrollers, schematics)
- Mike Broome (3-4 hours a week (no weekends): programming (C, perl, java), low-level chip stuff, electronics, minor fabrication)
- Dino Segovis (3 hours a week: hardware, electronics, 555 timers, fabrication, electronics CAD (FreePCB))
- Darren Boss (4-5 hours a week + a marathon: perl, ruby, java, photography)
- Ashley -- I'm in. 1-2 hours week, lots of experience in classrooms and how to keep things "educator friendly" :) I'm interested in using this somehow: http://www.modk.it/ w/ our microcontroller integration so that even educators w/ no programming experience could "program" the project. I promise to be at the next meeting :)
Here are the breakout groups:
floaters
- Kristin Bedell
- Peter Reintjes
- Jeff Crews
numeric blocks
- JC Sackett
- Ashley
bouncy ball
- Mike
- Tom Billman
Justis, Jeff, and Mike will meet at 17:15 on IRC
player piano
- Darren
- Skippy
- Alan
People we need to chase down as potential team members:
- Tom Karches (audio synthesizers, electronics, circuit bending, old electronics)
- Tom Billman
- Bill Farrow
- Dirk and Sarah
People we need to chase down as potential project advisors:
- Kristin Bedell
- Maria Droujkova
- Greg Dekoeningsberg
- Paul Overton
- Robin Mays
- Emily Mays
- Michael Stewart
Lenore will take pictures.
The Project Team
People who are definitely in:
- Alan Dipert (1-2 hours a week + a marathon: C programming, miscellany, CAD (sketchup and rhino)
- JC Sackett (2 hours a week + a marathon: writing, software development (python, some lua, some ruby), some arduino programming
- Justis Peters (5 hours a week: project management, software development, and Arduino)
- Skippy Hope (2-3 hours a week + a marathon: C, perl, some Arduino, degree in music, has taught private lessons)
- Jeff Crews (2 hours a week until later: fabrication, CAD)
- Peter Reintjes (8 hours a week: electronics and PIC microcontrollers, schematics)
- Mike Broome (3-4 hours a week (no weekends): programming (C, perl, java), low-level chip stuff, electronics, minor fabrication)
- Dino Segovis (3 hours a week: hardware, electronics, 555 timers, fabrication, electronics CAD (FreePCB))
- Darren Boss (4-5 hours a week + a marathon: perl, ruby, java, photography)
- Ashley -- I'm in. 1-2 hours week, lots of experience in classrooms and how to keep things "educator friendly" :) I'm interested in using this somehow: http://www.modk.it/ w/ our microcontroller integration so that even educators w/ no programming experience could "program" the project. I promise to be at the next meeting :)
People we need to chase down as potential team members:
- Tom Karches (audio synthesizers, electronics, circuit bending, old electronics)
- Tom Billman
- Bill Farrow
- Dirk and Sarah
People we need to chase down as potential project advisors:
- Kristin Bedell
- Maria Droujkova
- Greg Dekoeningsberg
- Paul Overton
- Robin Mays
- Emily Mays
- Michael Stewart
Lenore will take pictures.
Dream ideas from teachers in the field
- A device that helps ELL students understand syllabication in English (e.g., you say a word and a light flashes to represent the number of syllables)
- Digital Divide conquering: a way to provide low-cost connectivity to students who lack connectivity in the home/some sort of inexpensive handheld device that students could transport between home and school that would enable students to continue working on their projects outside of school hours
- A device that could attach to a SmartPhone, scan a word in text, pronounce the word and use the web to bring up an image of the word to illustrate meaning
- Fraction blocks that can wirelessly communicate and work for adding unlike denominators/finding equivalencies.