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Invent To Learn - Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom (Paperback)
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Invent To Learn - Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom (Paperback)
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Join the maker movement
There's a technological and creative revolution underway. Amazing
new tools, materials and skills turn us all into makers. Using
technology to make, repair or customize the things we need brings
engineering, design and computer science to the masses. Fortunately
for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural
inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. The
active learner is at the center of the learning process, amplifying
the best traditions of progressive education. This book helps
educators bring the exciting opportunities of the maker movement to
every classroom.
Children are natural tinkerers
Their seminal learning experiences come through direct experience
with materials. Digital fabrication, such as 3D printing and
physical computing, including Arduino, MaKey MaKey and Raspberry
Pi, expands a child's toy and toolboxes with new ways to make
things and new things to make. For the first time ever, childhood
inventions may be printed, programmed or imbued with interactivity.
Recycled materials can be brought back to life.
While school traditionally separates art and science, theory and
practice, such divisions are artificial. The real world just
doesn't work that way Architects are artists. Craftsmen deal in
aesthetics, tradition and mathematical precision. Video game
developers rely on computer science. Engineering and industrial
design are inseparable. The finest scientists are often
accomplished musicians. The maker community brings children,
hobbyists and professionals together in a glorious celebration of
personal expression with a modern flare.
When 3-D printing, precision cutting, microcomputer control,
robotics and computer programming become integral to the art
studio, auto shop or physics lab, every student needs access to
tools, knowledge and problem solving skills. The maker movement not
only blurs the artificial boundaries between subject areas, it
erases distinctions between art and science while most importantly
obliterating the crippling practice of tracking students in
academic pursuits or vocational training. There are now multiple
pathways to learning what we have always taught and things to do
that were unimaginable just a few years ago.
Making for every classroom budget
Even if you don't have access to expensive (but increasingly
affordable) hardware, every classroom can become a makerspace where
kids and teachers learn together through direct experience with an
assortment of high and low-tech materials. The potential range,
breadth, power, complexity and beauty of projects has never been
greater thanks to the amazing new tools, materials, ingenuity and
playfulness you will encounter in this book.
In this practical guide, Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager provide
K-12 educators with the how, why, and cool stuff that supports
classroom making.
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