If you can read this, thank a Grandmother.
An ode to grandmothers, the essential workers whose sewing skills kept so many of us safe in 2020.
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.
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.