First test with the new tile mold! ⚡♻️🛠️ 350g of recycled plastic, 0% waste. This is the first test I've made with the new mold, using shredded PLA from failed 3D prints. This is the result you can get with a 4€ silicone mold and a cheap oven. #PlasticSmoothie #PreciousPlastic

Is it even a #Makerspace without one? #cardboardconstruction #cardboarddisplay #STEM #imaybeaddictedtolasercuttingsendhelp

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Legos in math class! Good differentiation when learning about parallel and perpendicular lines.

🔴🟡🟢🔵🔴🟡🟢🔵🔴🟡🟢🔵🔴🟡🟢🔵🔴🟡🟢 Our Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group at MIT Media Lab is hiring a Creative Learning Coordinator to develop creative learning activities and work with global partners on educational initiatives for children and educators around the world. bit.ly/3HcFQwm

I'm grateful for microcontrollers designed for students like Micro:bit Educational Foundation! The alternative: pulling off photoresistors and soldering pins x 100 for breadboards... takes a lot of time!

The CDC says you no longer have to include your +C.

#bubbles

Student data portraits are adding a little color to my office at FIU | CARTA. Check out the survey questions to interpret the drawings! #dataviz

I made a whole fancy slidedeck with nice photos but all my seventh graders needed was a scribe while they defined and chose roles...

We started experimenting with electric mechanical systems yesterday! We ripped apart a servo and discussed the importance of the potentiometer for control. I highly recommend these resources: papermech.net/learn/ Concord Consortium @CUCraftLab

I had fun prepping for next fall by building this rigid heddle loom. Thank you to Kellie Dunn for the design, her plans and files here: kelliead.github.io/assignment8.ht…

We were nervous but pulled it off. Lots of laughs today as Ryan Kiely and I facilitated some meaningful making. We worked hard to step back, easier said than done!

Here's a larger patch of the new aperiodic monotile with tiles rendered as shirts. The shirts without buttons are flipped over (mirrored tile shape). Each of the six possible rotational orientations is given its own color.