Skip to content

Daily Archives: October 19th, 2008

Your pencil, Master!

I just got this nice present designed by Kikkerland. I knew their products before. It is nice place for “toy” collectors and gadgets lovers. I even have one windups, designed by the brazilian Chico Bicalho. But this robot is something else. Besides its fun-vintage good-looking, the power you apply to sharp your pencil actually make [...]

I do, you grade.

I am used to have more interaction mentor-student. Maybe my Brazilian background education was too parental, with teachers taking part on the design decision, walking and teaching the student out the assignment. Here the game is quite different:
A high level of independence is therefore expected from the student in the planning and execution of the [...]