From FabLearn 2015: Making + Biology
Sep 26, 2015 • 11:56 PM UTC
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Robbie Torney
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I’m a kindergarten teacher at a public school in Oakland, California, and I’ve done a good amount of making with my students. We’ve done woodworking, programming, sewing, and more, but so far, we’ve never really applied making in the context of biology.
I’m fortunate enough to be at FabLearn 2015 in Stanford, California. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the BioTech panel, but I was really intrigued to hear Manu (and the other panelists) talk about the power of interactive, cheap biotech. “Frugal science,” in his words, has the potential to transform communities across the developed and developing worlds by putting the ability to see the absolutely tiny in the hands of anyone.
So I built my own foldscope today. I’ve included some pictures from my exploration: some grass cells, some redwood bark cells, my hair, and some kind of milkweed seed.
I’d love for students at my school to get their hands on these — I’ll definitely bring mine in so they can use it, but there’s something special about assembling the foldscope and getting it to work. Has anyone else used these with classes of students?
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I’m fortunate enough to be at FabLearn 2015 in Stanford, California. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the BioTech panel, but I was really intrigued to hear Manu (and the other panelists) talk about the power of interactive, cheap biotech. “Frugal science,” in his words, has the potential to transform communities across the developed and developing worlds by putting the ability to see the absolutely tiny in the hands of anyone.
So I built my own foldscope today. I’ve included some pictures from my exploration: some grass cells, some redwood bark cells, my hair, and some kind of milkweed seed.
I’d love for students at my school to get their hands on these — I’ll definitely bring mine in so they can use it, but there’s something special about assembling the foldscope and getting it to work. Has anyone else used these with classes of students?
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grass cells
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my hair
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redwood bark, take 1
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redwood bark, take 2
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milkweed seed
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