Drawing connections

Drawing Connections Across Education: The Freiburg Writing Center Model

A German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akedemischer Austauschdienst, DAAD) visiting position recently brought me to Germany, “the country of poets and thinkers.” Whenever I hear this phrase, which is intended to highlight the prevalence of literary and philosophical discussion there, I nod and add for myself: “...and a place where one likes to regard poets and thinkers as geniuses and wh...

Making Connections: Improving Spatial Abilities with Engineering Drawing Activities

Spatial thinking is essential for scientific thought; it is used to represent and manipulate information in learning and problem solving (Clements & Battista, 1992). It is also required in many intellectual endeavors such as solving problems in engineering, design, physics and mathematics (Smith, 1964; Pellegrino, Alderton & Shute, 1984). Enhancing students' spatial abilities is one of the role...

Collective drawing

This paper is referred to the experiences run at Iuav since 2004 in the framework of the EU-FSE founded Courses of Collaborative Composition. In these courses we built up some work/game thought as meaning of a distance collaborative game. Rally around these games, we delivered specific knowledge and portions of technical knowledge referred to the issue of formal structure, shape grammar, and co...

Regular Connections among Generalized Connections

The properties of the space A of regular connections as a subset of the space A of generalized connections in the Ashtekar framework are studied. For every choice of compact structure group and smoothness category for the paths it is determined whether A is dense in A or not. Moreover, it is proven that A has Ashtekar-Lewandowski measure zero for every nontrivial structure group and every smoot...

Shen's Processes on Finslerian Connections