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.