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Photo Essay. The Hanging Garden by Foram. Tech Tools for Learning Marina Bers Alice Mello Cavallo Spring 2004. First observation: 3 rd session. Foram worked with some fabrics and made a head band for her Mom. She brought a built Lego car from home. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Photo Essay
The Hanging Garden
by Foram
Tech Tools for Learning Marina BersAlice Mello Cavallo Spring 2004
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First observation: 3rd session• Foram worked with some fabrics and made
a head band for her Mom.
• She brought a built Lego car from home.
• Her Mom helped her to improve her previous design built during the 2nd session.
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The idea• Foram decided to build a moving or
hanging garden on top of her car.
• She and her Mom have a garden in their house and they love gardens.
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Ideas for the hanging garden• Build walls around the car and attach a Lego
board.• Build flowers and make them turn.• Add benches and trees.• The garden would go around always looking for
sun light.
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First problem• As Foram starts to collect material, one of the
facilitators presents her with two Lego boards.• One was green and big therefore very appealing
to Foram.• But….it was a flat board that does not connect to
the Lego pieces…she could not build on top of the car unless she glued it.
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• She would not be able to attach a flower and connect it to a motor in order to make it spin. It made her first design of building walls impossible to implement.
• I could not change her mind about using the big flat board. Someone said she could glue it…
First problem
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The last session• Foram built a moving garden at the lab, but her
Mom helped her to improve it.• She had a smaller flat board and she attached
it to the back of the car.
• She had changed her original design of the car.
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The challenges
• Foram tried several ways to attach the garden to the car and it was not easy.
• She had a hard time to keep it all together without falling apart: car and garden.Trying different ways or designs to attach the garden to the car was a powerful idea for her and her Mom.
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Programming the brick
• I asked Foram if she remembered how she programmed the brick and she said “no”.
• Once I opened Robolab and asked her to try to show me, she started to re-create and explain what she had done.
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Explaining the programming
• She said her car was moving forward and backward
• She had programmed it by changing the way the motor turned and timed each way.
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What I missed
• The process of attaching the garden to the car. This was the main design challenge to Foram.
• The most important part of her learning process was during the problems faced when building the car and connecting the garden to it.
• Programming the brick.
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Final report in Foram’s words
• My project name is The Moving Garden• My project just moves forward and backward• It’s important to me because I like to plant a lot.• It’s also important because it brings happiness.• I decided to connect the garden to the back of the car• I did most of the programming at the Curriculum Lab.• I needed a lot of help with programming from my Mom
and the people at the workshop.• The hardest thing was keeping the car together.• I learned that you should never get frustrated and when
something goes wrong always try again.
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Analyzing Foram’s report
• She changed the name from hanging garden to moving garden.
• She did not seem satisfied with the movement of her car (she says “just”). It sounds like she wanted to do more and for some reason could not.
• I wonder if it was because she had initially thought about making the flowers spin and the car move looking for sun light.
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Powerful Idea
• She was personally attached to her project because planting a garden is very dear to her and her Mom.
• She also connects a garden with happiness and believes that gardens can make people happier. This seems a powerful idea for her as she apply her moving garden as a resource for her community.
• Gardens are part of her culture.• The process of finding a workable design for
connecting car and garden.