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The most wonderful thing about Schuyler St. Leger is that while he knows more about technology and electronics than most, he juxtaposes that knowledge with earnest curiosity. As much as Schuyler has to share, he also wants to learn.... 
Tom Bourke of Wittenberg envisions a place where creative-minded people can congregate. 
The d.school's founder, IDEO's David Kelley, believes that everyone has the capacity to innovate. They just need to change the way they behave. 
Learning adventures for creative educators - July 9-12, 2012... How is tinkering connected to true technology literacy? Explore learning theory about constructionism, PBL, tinkering, and design to find out. 
Afterschool programs focus on project-based learning - Philadelphia Public School Notebook (blog) http://t.co/tJi95Jvk... 
Dozens of school-age kids gathered at the Tech Museum in downtown San Jose on Saturday for a day of hacking. Armed with laptop computers, the youngsters hunkered down around tables, and in bean-bag chairs on the floor,... Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits : - SpokePOV MiniPOV SIM reader Tools MintyBoost Gift Certificates AVR Development Arduino Useful stuff BoArduino TV-B-Gone Game of Life Breakout Boards Propeller Drawdio XBee Fuzebox Tweet-a-Watt... 
Learning Materials Workshop designs quality building toys using a variety of materials -hardwood blocks, acrylic prisms, and flexible forms that develop children's thinking and imagination. TED Talks Gever Tulley uses engaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. |
Given the infusion of technology in almost every aspect of our lives, the education sector is struggling on how to integrate it into the classroom. We have seen current trends and attempts for th... I think this shows that "tinkering" with ideas is just as powerful. Alfie Kohn goes beyond the conventional wisdom about children’s imaginative play and explains how some of the new thinking about play isn’t quite right. With their boundless curiosity, fertile imagination, and natural mastery of the art of self-directed learning, children have much to teach adults about creat... 
Tinkering is the polar opposite of the test-driven, results-oriented approach of No Child Left Behind: it involves a loose process of trying things out, seeing what happens, reflecting and evaluating, and trying again. As Sylvia Martinez, a learning expert who spoke about the value of tinkering at a meeting of the National Council of Women in Information Technology earlier this year, puts it: “Tinkering is the way that real science happens, in all its messy glory.” Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2011/10/19/in-praise-of-tinkering-2/#ixzz1bHnFKPzE 
How did you spend your summer vacation as a kid? Roaming your town with your friends, catching ï¬reflies, sneaking into a movie, swimming in the local quarry, taking the L-train down to watch a Cubs game? 
Welcome to one of my most resource-filled posts ever! One that is dedicated to highlighting some amazing free resources that will help support STEM-based PBL in the classroom . Before introduci... 
Forget the dysfunctional approach of the national curriculum, we need to open young minds to the creative possibilities of computing, writes John Naughton... 
MAKE is loaded with exciting DIY projects and how-tos that help you make the most of the technology in your life. 
The Tinkering Studio is an immersive, active, creative place at the Exploratorium where museum visitors can slow down, become deeply engaged in an investigation of scientific phenomena, and make something--a piece of a collaborative chain reaction,... 
The world's greatest DIY comic strip website. Learn "how" to do anything in a car"toon" = Howtoons. |
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