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The maker movement has garnered much attention in recent years. In formal K-12 education subjects like science and engineering, it has emerged as a reason to encourage creative thinking, tinkering, crafting, and manufacturing items using cheap hardware. Education Daily reporter Emily Brown spoke with MƒA Master Teacher Elizabeth Dowdell about ‘making’ in the classroom and how important design skills are for teachers:
Elizabeth Dowdell, a physics teacher at the Urban Assembly Maker Academy, a public school in NYC, said employers largely value (design) skills -- the ability to think intuitively and to collaborate with peers.
"It's that kind of flexibility, creativity, and analytical critical thinking that is, by far, the most important skill for employees to have," added Dowdell, a Math for America Master Teacher fellow.
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Making is part of that iterative process, and project-based learning opportunities allow students to "cycle back through" subject matter content and standards in order to achieve a skill, she said.
Read the full article in Education Daily.