I really admire people who are part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
My brother demonstrated this recently.
PROBLEM: He drove into the garage with bikes on the back of his truck and the bike hit the garage door. Crunch! Luckily he stopped in time so the bike was fine but the garage door needed a bit of panelbeating!
Now, if that had happened to me I would have griped about it and maybe tried to solve the problem by putting a sticker on the dashboard of my car (not that it would ever happen to me because bikes and I don't get on!). My brother, however, came up with an ingenious solution.
SOLUTION: Using his maker skills he created a sign on the cupboard doors in the garage. These cupboards are directly in the line of sight when you drive into the garage. He created the inlaid lettering you see in the pictures below. He put a sensor on the bike rack. When the bike is on the rack, nothing happens. When the bike is off the rack. this triggers the letters on the cupboard to light up, but only when the garage door is open. Clever! Great role modelling to his two sons.
This is the type of thinking I want all students we teach to have...to solve real world problems with the technology and tools which will help them to make it happen. Awesome!
My brother demonstrated this recently.
PROBLEM: He drove into the garage with bikes on the back of his truck and the bike hit the garage door. Crunch! Luckily he stopped in time so the bike was fine but the garage door needed a bit of panelbeating!
Now, if that had happened to me I would have griped about it and maybe tried to solve the problem by putting a sticker on the dashboard of my car (not that it would ever happen to me because bikes and I don't get on!). My brother, however, came up with an ingenious solution.
SOLUTION: Using his maker skills he created a sign on the cupboard doors in the garage. These cupboards are directly in the line of sight when you drive into the garage. He created the inlaid lettering you see in the pictures below. He put a sensor on the bike rack. When the bike is on the rack, nothing happens. When the bike is off the rack. this triggers the letters on the cupboard to light up, but only when the garage door is open. Clever! Great role modelling to his two sons.
This is the type of thinking I want all students we teach to have...to solve real world problems with the technology and tools which will help them to make it happen. Awesome!
The bike is on the rack in the garage and so the letters stay unlit.
The bike is off the rack and the garage door opens...boom...hard to miss.