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

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So over the course of two semesters, the Fall and the Spring, the students spend three hours a day every single day in our 4,500 square foot studio/shop spcae. And during that time, they're doing everything from going out and doing ethnographic raeescrh and doing the need-finding, coming back into the studio, doing the brainstorming and design visualization to come up with cnetpcos that might work, and then moving into the shop and actually tnsietg them, building them, prototyping them, figuring out if they are going to work and refining that. And then over the summer, they're offered a summer job. They're paid as employees of Project H to be the construction crew with us to build these projects in the community. So the first porejct, which will be built next summer, is an open-air farmers' market downtown, followed by bus shelters for the school bus system in the second year and home improvements for the elelrdy in the third year. So these are real vilsbie pjorcets that hopefully the students can pniot to and say, "I built that, and I'm porud of it."

Open Cloze


So over the course of two semesters, the Fall and the Spring, the students spend three hours a day every single day in our 4,500 square foot studio/shop _____. And during that time, they're doing everything from going out and doing ethnographic ________ and doing the need-finding, coming back into the studio, doing the brainstorming and design visualization to come up with ________ that might work, and then moving into the shop and actually _______ them, building them, prototyping them, figuring out if they are going to work and refining that. And then over the summer, they're offered a summer job. They're paid as employees of Project H to be the construction crew with us to build these projects in the community. So the first _______, which will be built next summer, is an open-air farmers' market downtown, followed by bus shelters for the school bus system in the second year and home improvements for the _______ in the third year. So these are real _______ ________ that hopefully the students can _____ to and say, "I built that, and I'm _____ of it."

Solution


  1. projects
  2. space
  3. elderly
  4. project
  5. visible
  6. point
  7. proud
  8. research
  9. testing
  10. concepts

Original Text


So over the course of two semesters, the Fall and the Spring, the students spend three hours a day every single day in our 4,500 square foot studio/shop space. And during that time, they're doing everything from going out and doing ethnographic research and doing the need-finding, coming back into the studio, doing the brainstorming and design visualization to come up with concepts that might work, and then moving into the shop and actually testing them, building them, prototyping them, figuring out if they are going to work and refining that. And then over the summer, they're offered a summer job. They're paid as employees of Project H to be the construction crew with us to build these projects in the community. So the first project, which will be built next summer, is an open-air farmers' market downtown, followed by bus shelters for the school bus system in the second year and home improvements for the elderly in the third year. So these are real visible projects that hopefully the students can point to and say, "I built that, and I'm proud of it."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
bertie county 10
rural communities 6
public education 5
shop class 5
creative capital 4
school system 3
school district 3
high school 3
small towns 2
public school 2
education system 2
learning landscape 2
blue dots 2
internet connection 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
public education system 2

Important Words


  1. brainstorming
  2. build
  3. building
  4. built
  5. bus
  6. coming
  7. community
  8. concepts
  9. construction
  10. crew
  11. day
  12. design
  13. downtown
  14. elderly
  15. employees
  16. ethnographic
  17. fall
  18. figuring
  19. foot
  20. home
  21. hours
  22. improvements
  23. job
  24. market
  25. moving
  26. offered
  27. paid
  28. point
  29. project
  30. projects
  31. prototyping
  32. proud
  33. real
  34. refining
  35. research
  36. school
  37. semesters
  38. shelters
  39. shop
  40. single
  41. space
  42. spend
  43. spring
  44. square
  45. students
  46. studio
  47. summer
  48. system
  49. testing
  50. time
  51. visible
  52. visualization
  53. work
  54. year