Teaching Kids To Make

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In his TED2009 talk, and in a comic-style illustrated piece entitled 'Tinkering School', Gever Tulley shares his work teaching kids through hands-on design and implementation, using power-tools under supervision to build their ideas.  Link: http://www.tinkeringschool.com/blog/2009/ted-2009/

Power-tools aren't the focus of the 'school'; creativity, self-confidence and  process are.  But I'm sure the kids enjoy being given some self-responsibility as well.

In a world when too often children are trading rote-learning for running barefoot in the dusty playground, initiatives like 'Tinkering School' are more important than ever.

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