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Jugaad, educational toys from Junk (TPACK at work)

| Posted on: September 14th, 2009 | Categories: Art, Creativity, Design, Engineering, Fun, Games, Good | Bad Design, India, Learning, Philosophy, Puzzles, Science, TPACK, Teaching, Technology, Worth Reading | 1 Comment »
Other related posts and pages: |Jugaad, India-genous creativity | TPACK & creativity | Design and creative repurposing: Thinking about Ed Tech | Unpacking TPACK, the book | Koehler & Mishra (in press) |

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I had written earlier about the idea of Jugaad, the quintessential Indian idea of situational creativity. One of the masters at this is Arvind Gupta. Check out his website for tons of wonderful science toys and experiments that can be made from stuff we typically throw away. Very cool and a critical part of the kind of repurposing of artifacts we need for creative teaching.

Throwaway Technology, playful Pedagogy and powerful Content… who says TPACK needs hi-tech!

Via Major Fun (aka Bernie DeKoven) comes Arvind Gupta, winner of the Defender of the Playful Award.


| Posted on: September 14th, 2009
Other related posts and pages: |Jugaad, India-genous creativity | TPACK & creativity | Design and creative repurposing: Thinking about Ed Tech | Unpacking TPACK, the book | Koehler & Mishra (in press) |


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One Response to “Jugaad, educational toys from Junk (TPACK at work)”

  1. Major Fun Says:
    September 14th, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    Our latest “Defender of the Playful” – http://majorfun.com/2009/09/arvind-gupta-defender-of-playful.html

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