An Educational Fidget Spinner - Finally!

by Paul-NussbaumE in Workshop > CNC

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As an Electronics Professor here at ECPI University - I'm not a huge fan of Fidget Spinners. I am, however, a huge fan of my students. Since a good number of my students are drawn towards the fad of Fidget Spinners, I felt I had to find a way to weave them into my classes. I created this Fidget Spinner that is educational (finally) and easy to customize for different classes, lesson plans, and modalities. For example, each student gets to spin it and randomly stop on one of the entries written around the edge - then they can be asked to write, read aloud, solve, convert, discuss, etc. that entry. This method can work for a wide variety of topics - but in this case, I'm having the students learn to convert between the first 16 Binary, Decimal, and Hexadecimal numbers.