Mowing the lawn and pondering the Innovations lesson, hashing out last weeks lessons and resulting discussions in my mind and I should jot down a couple of thoughts before they slip my mind...
If nothing else, and if the students don't come away with any additional knowledge of the Design Process and innovation (although I suspect they will) they are starting to look for connections (or perhaps just see them without looking).
Discussing this in two HS classes, and touched on it in the evening class I teach at BCC (Broome Community College) - in our discussions of Dean Kamen and the work he does with DARPA on advanced prosthetics, we looked at DARPA and some of its other projects.
Was interesting to watch students make the connection between DARPA's work on advance prosthetics, and the exciting and interesting work they are doing related to the Future Soldier (or Future Force warrior) project and wonder if the two were connected, and if so was that good or bad (and could it be both)?
This connected back to the "Science Fiction Science Fact" powerpoint.
If it wouldn't get us off on to much of a tangent, Id love to follow through with a lesson on connecting the developments in the Future Soldier program to things going on in science fiction literature and movies.
Might make a nice lesson to be team taught in a Social Studies class.
Future Force warrior on wikipedia
DARPA
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