Communications Media Professor J.J. Sylvia IV brought students in his Critical Making course, part of our Digital Media Innovation program out to the quad to familiarize themselves with drone operation.
Critical making posits that playful engagements with materials are effective means to produce and acquire new knowledge. This course explores how the combination of critical thinking and hands-on making creates new opportunities for learning that exceed what is possible through either path alone. Students will use tools including, but not limited to, 3D printing, microcontrollers, and augmented reality to reconnect their lived experiences with technologies to social and conceptual critique. No previous technical knowledge is required, but the course will involve basic programming and electronic circuitry.
