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From the Ted Talk by Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So we thought, what if you could bring back shop class, but this time orient the projects around things that the community needed, and to infuse shop class with a more ciarictl and creative-design-thinking studio process. So we took this kind of nebulous idea and have worked really closely with Dr. Zullinger for the past year on writing this as a one-year curriculum offered at the high school level to the jinuor csals. And so this sratts in four weeks, at the end of the smumer, and my partner and I, mtethaw and I, just went through the auodurs and totally convoluted process of getting certified as high school teachers to actually run it. And this is what it looks like.

Open Cloze


So we thought, what if you could bring back shop class, but this time orient the projects around things that the community needed, and to infuse shop class with a more ________ and creative-design-thinking studio process. So we took this kind of nebulous idea and have worked really closely with Dr. Zullinger for the past year on writing this as a one-year curriculum offered at the high school level to the ______ _____. And so this ______ in four weeks, at the end of the ______, and my partner and I, _______ and I, just went through the _______ and totally convoluted process of getting certified as high school teachers to actually run it. And this is what it looks like.

Solution


  1. critical
  2. class
  3. matthew
  4. starts
  5. summer
  6. junior
  7. arduous

Original Text


So we thought, what if you could bring back shop class, but this time orient the projects around things that the community needed, and to infuse shop class with a more critical and creative-design-thinking studio process. So we took this kind of nebulous idea and have worked really closely with Dr. Zullinger for the past year on writing this as a one-year curriculum offered at the high school level to the junior class. And so this starts in four weeks, at the end of the summer, and my partner and I, Matthew and I, just went through the arduous and totally convoluted process of getting certified as high school teachers to actually run it. And this is what it looks like.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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collocation frequency
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Important Words


  1. arduous
  2. bring
  3. certified
  4. class
  5. closely
  6. community
  7. convoluted
  8. critical
  9. curriculum
  10. dr
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  21. orient
  22. partner
  23. process
  24. projects
  25. run
  26. school
  27. shop
  28. starts
  29. studio
  30. summer
  31. teachers
  32. thought
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  34. totally
  35. weeks
  36. worked
  37. writing
  38. year
  39. zullinger