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Constructionism Game!!

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with xaringan

Arvind Venkatadri

Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design, and Technology

2016/12/12 (updated: 2024-08-11)

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First, a Scavenger Hunt

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Some Instructions!!

  1. You must find all items as quickly as possible.
  2. Do not damage anything in the room, not pilfer stuff from anyone else!
  3. All items must be found within Srishti or very close by, generally your backpacks or on person; however, if you borrow something from someone, it has to be returned properly afterwards.
  4. Each item may count for only one category i.e. against one item in the list to be shown to you shortly.
  5. You must have all items at the end of the stipulated time.
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Are you Ready?

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Here is your List of Objects to Collect

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Here is your List!!

  1. An autograph of someone wearing blue
  2. A book by an ethnic author
  3. A thumb tack
  4. A cup
  5. Something soft
  6. One meme
  7. A word in another language
  8. An article about another country
  9. Something red
  10. A pencil
  1. A piece of gum or candy
  2. Make up
  3. Paperclip
  4. Something round
  5. A poem by a Scottish poet
  6. A tissue
  7. A ‘Basavana paada’ leaf1
  8. One Vegetable
  9. One small hand tool
  10. One piece of Cloth

Something hot
An earring
A toy

[1] Think in Kannada!!

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What to make with all this Stuff?

You only live once!

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Seymour Papert Constructionism Task

  1. Think of yourself back in school

  2. Think of all the subjects that you studied:

    • English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Kannada,
    • Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology,
    • Geography, History, Civics, Psychology,
    • Gardening, Carpentry, Pottery, Poetry…
    • Also: Gauss’ Divergence Theorem, Maxwell’s Equations in Cylindrical Coordinates, Brillouin Zones, Bessel Functions (oh, never mind)

  3. Select one favourite Story or Concept from your favourite Subject.

    • Want any examples?

  4. Build a Model to represent it using all your material from the Scavenger Hunt + the Boxes, Paper, String that you may have brought.

    • If you need to use the workshop below, tell me first.
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Seymour Papert Constructionism Task

  1. Document your Work:

    • A brief Note of your final chosen Concept/Story/Idea

    • Describe at least TWO other concepts that you thought of and rejected and why (using a short PMI)

    • Describe how for TWO of the objects that you have, you have developed ALTERNATIVE USES (after Guilford).

    • Describe the Use itself and the DOMAIN and the ELABORATION.

  2. Show and Tell Time: TBD

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