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From the Ted Talk by Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So this is a story of a place that I now call home. It's a sroty of pbliuc education and of raurl cmeniomitus and of what design might do to improve both. So this is Bertie County, North Carolina, USA. To give you an idea of the "where:" So here's North clornaia, and if we zoom in, Bertie County is in the eastern part of the state. It's about two hours east driving-time from Raleigh. And it's very flat. It's very swampy. It's mostly farmland. The entire county is home to just 20,000 polpee, and they're very sparsely distributed. So there's only 27 people per square mile, which comes down to about 10 people per square kilometer.

Open Cloze

So this is a story of a place that I now call home. It's a _____ of ______ education and of _____ ___________ and of what design might do to improve both. So this is Bertie County, North Carolina, USA. To give you an idea of the "where:" So here's North ________, and if we zoom in, Bertie County is in the eastern part of the state. It's about two hours east driving-time from Raleigh. And it's very flat. It's very swampy. It's mostly farmland. The entire county is home to just 20,000 ______, and they're very sparsely distributed. So there's only 27 people per square mile, which comes down to about 10 people per square kilometer.

Solution

  1. story
  2. rural
  3. communities
  4. public
  5. people
  6. carolina

Original Text

So this is a story of a place that I now call home. It's a story of public education and of rural communities and of what design might do to improve both. So this is Bertie County, North Carolina, USA. To give you an idea of the "where:" So here's North Carolina, and if we zoom in, Bertie County is in the eastern part of the state. It's about two hours east driving-time from Raleigh. And it's very flat. It's very swampy. It's mostly farmland. The entire county is home to just 20,000 people, and they're very sparsely distributed. So there's only 27 people per square mile, which comes down to about 10 people per square kilometer.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
bertie county 10
rural communities 6
public education 5
shop class 5
creative capital 4
school system 3
school district 3
high school 3
small towns 2
public school 2
education system 2
learning landscape 2
blue dots 2
internet connection 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
public education system 2

Important Words

  1. bertie
  2. call
  3. carolina
  4. communities
  5. county
  6. design
  7. distributed
  8. east
  9. eastern
  10. education
  11. entire
  12. farmland
  13. flat
  14. give
  15. home
  16. hours
  17. idea
  18. improve
  19. kilometer
  20. mile
  21. north
  22. part
  23. people
  24. place
  25. public
  26. raleigh
  27. rural
  28. sparsely
  29. square
  30. state
  31. story
  32. swampy
  33. usa
  34. zoom