Description
| Product ID: | 9781433119194 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies |
| Title: | Textile Messages |
| Subtitle: | Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education |
| Authors: | Author: Kylie Peppler, Colin Lankshear, Yasmin Kafai, Michael Eisenberg, Leah Buechley |
| Page Count: | 248 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, Education, Information technology: general topics, Education, Information technology: general issues |
| Description: | This book introduces a collection of tools that enable novices – including educators, hobbyists, and youth designers – to create and learn with e-textiles. It then examines how these tools are reshaping technology education – and DIY practices – across the K-16 spectrum. Textile Messages focuses on the emerging field of electronic textiles, or e-textiles – computers that can be soft, colorful, approachable, and beautiful. E-textiles are articles of clothing, home furnishings, or architectures that include embedded computational and electronic elements. This book introduces a collection of tools that enable novices – including educators, hobbyists, and youth designers – to create and learn with e-textiles. It then examines how these tools are reshaping technology education – and DIY practices – across the K-16 spectrum, presenting examples of the ways educators, researchers, designers, and young people are employing them to build new technology, new curricula, and new creative communities. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-09-09 |