{"id":884,"date":"2014-05-01T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2014-05-01T16:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:16:29","slug":"physical-computing-lecturer-blogs-for-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Physical Computing lecturer blogs for Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-book-store.amazon.com\/post\/Tx1M0UFGIZPDAE3\/-span-class-matches-Arduino-span-And-Education-Sizing-Up-The-Landscape\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-885\" alt=\"BrockCraft-tile\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BrockCraft-tile.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>A blog by Goldsmiths Physical Computing lecturer Brock Craft has won him &#8216;featured writer&#8217; status on Amazon&#8217;s tech bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>His blog <a href=\"http:\/\/tech-book-store.amazon.com\/post\/Tx1M0UFGIZPDAE3\/-span-class-matches-Arduino-span-And-Education-Sizing-Up-The-Landscape\">Arduino and education &#8211; sizing up the landscape<\/a> introduces the tiny computer that has been widely adopted in science, engineering, technology and mathematics education in high schools, as a way of teaching computational thinking skills.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Craft is a specialist in Technology Enhanced Learning. He was a Partner at the design firm TinkerLondon, where he introduced the Arduino into the UK along with its creator, Massimo Banzi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=739\">Recent projects from Brock&#8217;s Physical Computing students<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/computing\/teachers\/\">Goldsmiths&#8217; certificate course\u00a0 in creative programming for teachers, 28-30 May<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog by Goldsmiths Physical Computing lecturer Brock Craft has won him &#8216;featured writer&#8217; status on Amazon&#8217;s tech bookstore. His blog Arduino and education &#8211; sizing up the landscape introduces the tiny computer that has been widely adopted in science, engineering, technology and mathematics education in high schools, as a way of teaching computational thinking &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physical Computing lecturer blogs for Amazon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}