Dimitra Tsoumpri
ABSTRACT
The 21st Century has been characterized by the dawn of the 3rd Industrial Revolution regarding the way we share knowledge and build things. Open Source and Digital Fabrication has affected the way we learn and build things but not the way we teach things. The classic educational model of the teacher opposed to the student is in contradiction to the spirit of the Shared Knowledge students are familiar with, through the internet. DIY projects bridge the gap between the tutor and the student by using the process of a Do It Yourself project and the guidance of the tutor. Our lab conducts a DIY workshop as a - hands on, multidisciplinary, education - process. The project is about putting together a vertical plotter, Polargraph, and programming it via Arduino and Processing. The students work in teams regarding the different scientific areas of the project. The process is based on a -hands on- approach where the students do their research; they put their idea to the test and try to find the error through tests and observation. The workshop meant for the conference is a short version of the original program, meant to introduce the attendees to a DIY educational process.
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- http://www.polargraph.co.uk/whats-a-polargraph/. n.d. 28 February 2019.Google Scholar
- https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction. n.d n.d 3 April 2019Google Scholar
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Index Terms
- Polargraph, the Project: Education through DIY
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