4 Wacky Ideas

Wacky Idea 1:
Teach the teens to communicate using drawings. Have them design the instructions for putting together a cool IKEA product as an exercise in visual communication. We'll take them up to the store afterwards to talk with their designers and check out the software tools they use. They can present their version of the instructions to each other and discuss pros and cons. Next the students can design a new Studio project or take an old one, and write instructions for building it. We could swap instruction sets with teens from MyBEST and try to build each other's projects long distance. We could find teens the same age in Mexico or Singapore who put together furniture in factories and start a pen-pal program.


Wacky Idea 2:

Use an iPod or some other cool tech thing as an incentive in DesignIT. We'll have Radioshack donate 5 or 10 of them. The students who create the coolest projects and work through the most badges in DesignIT wins an iPod. I'll E-mail Blaine and ask him if it's possible. If Radioshack won't do it, I'll go to Apple.








Wacky Idea 3:
A DesignIT Studio t-shirt. A long list in a light color....

glue IT. code IT. build IT.
draw IT. map IT. think IT.
dream IT. design IT. test IT.
paint IT. saw IT. make IT.
invent IT. smash IT. hack IT.



Wacky Idea 4:
Another badge (if we do badges) ...a book literacy badge. If a student brings me receipts from three months worth of library receipts and/or a reading log and a number of the books and magazines are about art, science, or technology, they can earn a literacy badge.