- Talking & working with others is one of the best ways to cement new knowledge.
- The power of making comes from a question or impulse that the learner has, and is not imposed from the outside.
- MAKING is about the active role construction plays in learning. The maker has a product in mind when working with tools & materials.
- TINKERING is a mindset - a playful way to approach & solve problems through direct experience, experimentation, and discovery.
- ENGINEERING extracts principles from direct experience.
- Adopting a tinkering mindset in your classroom allows all students to learn in their own style.
- Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don't quite know how to do, guided by whim, imagination & curiosity. When you tinker, there are no instructions - but there are also no failures, no right or wrong ways of doing things. It's about figuring out how things work & reworking them...Tinkering is, at its most basic, a process that marries play & inquiry. Banzi, 2008
- We teach children science & maths so they can make the world a better place, not just so they can pass tests.
- Engaging children as quickly as possible in real projects creates an authentic context for learning a specific science formula or math equation since students realise they need that skill or information to continue their projects.