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Displaying items by tag: Engineering Curriculum

Tuesday, 17 November 2015 00:00

What’s Wrong with Ideas?

As designers of engineering curriculum for children and young teens, we are frequently asked if our materials are "hands-on." In fact, we get this question more than any other. This obsession with hands-on perplexes us. We think people ask for two reasons—first, because they believe hands-on results in better learning; second, because they believe hands-on is essential to student engagement and learning.

Published in Professional Development