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.
| ISBN: | 9781433119194 |
| Publication date: | 9th September 2013 |
| Author: | Michele Knobel |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies |
| Genres: |
Education The arts: general topics Information technology: general topics |