Where did you go to school

[Mikecg]

Great stuff there CharChar very cool.

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> I learnt that even the most out of control 15yr

> olds can blossom given the right encouragement...

>

>

> I am not a school teacher but spent yesterday with

> 40 inner city school kids doing a design project

> called 'trainers of the future'. We used the

> trainer as a way to get them to 'dream' about what

> might be possible, think about other people's

> needs and understand how design can be used to

> improved peoples lives. You can't see form the pic

> all the magical ideas they had embeedded in their

> design thinking, but for example, the punky

> looking shoe... "the yellow spikes fly out when

> you are in danger on the streets and create a

> protective circle around you so you can not be

> harmed", the pale pink one (which is for babies)

> has "a button that you press to play a special

> kind of music that calms the baby, so it stops

> crying and starts smiling" They has 2 hours to do

> the project and worked in teams....

> well you did ask Mikecg

>

> edited a hundred times cos I can't sort out my pic

> to be small enough...