Description
Write a “Gears” essay – a short essay on “evocative” objects from your childhood/youth which have had an important impact on your intellectual life, in the same spirit of Papert’s foreword to his book Mindstorms. The essay should have more or less the same length as the one from Papert or the ones from Turkle’s book—700-1000 words—but we are flexible if you want to write more. Feel free to add pictures/videos and other media. Please submit your essay via Slack as a DOCX file, in your channel with the teaching team.
Assessment
- ✓ + Would not feel out of place as the foreword to Mindstorms. Generative, opinionated.
- ✓ Would not feel out of place in the Evocative Objects book, a collection of Gears Essays edited by Sherry Turkle.
- ✓ – Short, vague, careless.