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.
Final Deliverables
- 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.