Objects and Synthesis
Saturday, December 17th, 2011
This semester, in our Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning class, we’ve talked about a lot of issues concerning information literacy in all its analog and digital forms. Two hot points of discussion have focused on teaching with objects and synthesis.
So when I heard about this project from our colleagues elsewhere on campus, in which students took recycled tires and seatbelts from junked cars and converted them into sandals. This, I think, is the creative thinking that the ISTE NETS*S are looking for, where disparate problems can be attacked via a single solution.
An abundance of discarded tires filling landfills + discarded seat belt webbing + need for satisfying projects that can be completed by someone with basic/entry skills + pride in Detroit (the Big D) = innovation.
That’s synthesis, right? A cool example to share with students.
This semester, in our Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning class, we’ve talked about a lot of issues concerning information literacy in all its analog and digital forms. Two hot points of discussion have focused on teaching with objects and synthesis.
So when I heard about this project from our colleagues elsewhere on campus, in which students took recycled tires and seatbelts from junked cars and converted them into sandals. This, I think, is the creative thinking that the ISTE NETS*S are looking for, where disparate problems can be attacked via a single solution.
An abundance of discarded tires filling landfills + discarded seat belt webbing + need for satisfying projects that can be completed by someone with basic/entry skills + pride in Detroit (the Big D) = innovation.
That’s synthesis, right? A cool example to share with students.
