- Business leaders say they are looking for creative, independent problem solvers in every field, not just maths & science.
- Science is about wonder & risk & imagination, not checklists or vocabulary memorisation.
- Too often, we teach as if all scientific problems are solved & the steps are fixed. It's like teaching music theory without allowing children to hear or play actual music.
- The best way to ensure the development of design thinking is for students to be engaged in authentic design activities. The surest path to computational thinking is a student engaged in computer programming.
- Design in the real world is often a process of deliberate tinkering.
- The maker movement reminds us regularly that art & science are inseparable.
- All design starts with an idea. But spiralling, iterative design does not require that the entire product be completely planned at the beginning.
- ...children imagine what they want to do, create a project based on their ideas, play with their creations, share their ideas and creations with others, reflect on their experiences - all of which leads them to imagine new ideas and new projects.
- Time is the most precious of classroom resources. Teachers need to protect actual making from time spent on teaching the particulars of a model of making.
- Making, tinkering, and engineering may require schools to undergo structural changes that support inquiry and project development over much longer periods of time than they are accustomed.