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Introduction - Cardboard Chair Video Timeline

The Cardboard Chair Video Timeline gives you a video chronology of how tech ed teacher, Ed Goldman, implemented this design challenge of his own making with his students. MOVIE 1 introduces you to the setting where the activity was done -- Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, NY.

Use the Video Timeline to help you with daily planning, or to see how the unit as a whole unfolds. Click on any of the Day buttons to see selected scenes from this 10-week unit.

Questions on MOVIE 1:

1. What are some special features about Brooklyn Tech HS that you noticed?
2. What are special features of where you teach?
3. Research in "situated learning" says that students find it hard to apply skills from one context to another. Are Goldman's goals about his freshmen students learning about designing in line with this? Do you think students can "transfer" skills like designing or experimenting from one context to another?
MOVIE 1:   2 minutes 49 seconds
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