MakerBot Industries is giving away ten MakerBots to ten teachers at any educational level. Let’s just consider this my entry:
- Your name
- Uh. I’ll stick with “MakerBlock” for now.
- Your school’s name
- Sheesh. These are getting harder. Okay, how about “MakerBlock.com”? No? “MakerBlock U”?
- The address you’d like the MakerBot sent to if you are chosen
- Same place as my last order. ;)
- A paragraph describing how you would integrate the MakerBot into your curriculum. Include some description of the learning environment and what you teach
- I would integrate a MakerBot into my curriculum by using it as a demonstration of iterative design, digital fabrication, digital design, invention, and innovation. The learning environment is the whole freaking internet. 1 I teach digital plastic AWESOME.
- A lesson plan that you will implement if you get a MakerBot
- Pssh. Just one? I’ll give you THREE.
- You’ve got a MakerBot, a laptop, unlimited plastic and electricity. You are trapped in a mineshaft. How do you get out?
- You’ve got a MakerBot, a laptop, unlimited plastic and electricity. You are trapped in a mineshaft with a tiger. How do you get out?
- You’ve got a MakerBot, a laptop, unlimited plastic and electricity. You are trapped in a mineshaft with a tiger shark. How do you get out?
- Actually, according to Feedburner and Google Analytics, the number is just a few hundred people a day [↩]
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> ◦A lesson plan…
Step 1: use electricity to discourage animals from chewing on you
Step 2: use laptop to contact Webca (of http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3285 fame) and ask him to please upload a design for a printable ladder or maybe an elevator
Step 3: use laptop to order glue guns and LOTS of extra glue sticks delivered
Step 4: use laptop to schedule regular pizza deliveries
Step 5: while waiting, use electricity stick and pizza carrot to train tiger & tigershark in the art of glue gunning
Step 6: supervise assembly of laddevator0
Step 7: escape!
Extra credit: a) use step 5 to also train tiger & shark in circus tricks, in case you lost your job while sitting around (aka: supervising) at the bottom of the mine shaft; b) start circus; c) profit! d) aquire additional trained shark to perform the “a shark jumping a shark” trick, which has never been done before; e) big profit!
(submitted to Cliffs Notes, MBU division, for publishing)
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