5 Myths About Learning in College: Myth 1
This grotesque figure is actually a diagram of the brain’s sensory cortex, and how much of the cortex’s function is take up by each part of the body. The huge hands demonstrate how central they are to our ability to sense and manipulate the world.
Making Thinking Visible: A favorite story from my classroom
A memorable moment from my classroom, where using things to think with (flip chart paper) led a graduate student to a breakthrough.
Why Thinking With Things?
What sense can we make of the phrase “thinking with things?” On the face of it, it seems naive, even “primitive.” We think with our brains, of course, not with things. Or do we?
How it started for me
I’ve always been a maker, but it my making was always walled off from my approach to the classroom by an impermeable barrier that was part habit, part misconception, and part stigma.
Thinking with crocheted hyperbolic planes
We are surrounded, of course, by things to think with. But one of my favorites is a bit obscure: the crocheted hyperbolic plane. A hyperbolic plane is a mathematical object.