Learning a Craft from Books

Computationally-Enhanced Books: Blending Sensor-Based Interaction with Traditional Craft

Books are an important part of early childhood. Pop-up and movable books add a touch of magic to the experience. Believing that the magic comes from the process of the craftsperson, we describe two computationally-enhanced books that blend traditional and digital craft to add the magic of sensor-based interaction to the experience. The first book explores the process of making handmade paper an...

Clinical craft: a lesson from Liverpool.

Inspiration in medical humanities can be intense and personal, and does not necessarily require the portrayal of health issues.

Renaissance Surgery Between Learning and Craft.

Sociocultural learning within craft communities of practice

As craft production is a social enterprise, this document outlines the educational role of sociocultural theory within craft communities. Craft practitioners, whether they are aware of it or not, form themselves into groups which serve as their community and assist in the sharing of knowledge; relevant to this social clustering are the concepts of situated learning, cognitive apprenticeship and...

Learning from picture books: Infants’ use of naming information

The present study investigated whether naming would facilitate infants' transfer of information from picture books to the real world. Eighteen- and 21-month-olds learned a novel label for a novel object depicted in a picture book. Infants then saw a second picture book in which an adult demonstrated how to elicit the object's non-obvious property. Accompanying narration described the pictures u...