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Title: | “Officina degli Errori”: A Tinkering Experience in an Informal Environment | Authors: | RICCIARDI, SARA VILLA, FABRIZIO RINI, STEFANO MATTEO, BONI SARA, VENTURI ANNALISA, BUGINI MIRIAM, MASINI |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Volume: | Conference proceedings. New perspectives in science education 7th edition | Editors: | Pixel | Series: | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION | Abstract: | Since 2012 we have been working together with teachers to design, promote and deliver hands-on, self-directed and playful activities to engage children with STEM. The most powerful method we used is tinkering, which is a holistic way to engage people with STEM disciplines mixing them with art and combining hi-tech material with low-tech and recycled material. Knowledge is not simply transmitted from teacher to learner, but actively constructed by the mind (and the hands) of the learner. Constructionism (Papert 1980) suggested that learners are more likely to develop new insights and understandings while actively engaged in making an external artifact. This method supports the construction of knowledge within the context of building personally meaningful artifacts, and the more self-directed the work is the more meaningful the learning becomes. From 2014 we proposed to the pupils of our local community several workshops based on the activities originally developed by the Tinkering Studio. Our labs are now mature and ready to be brought in a larger arena. For this reason, in the past months (Oct-Dec 2017) we brought tinkering into the Museo del Patrimonio Industriale under the name of “Officina degli Errori”, a set of 4 tinkering activities in this informal environment. We engaged a group of 20 kids, from 6 to 12 years old, during 4 workshops held on Saturday afternoon in the conference area of the museum. We expect this successful test will open a new branch of activities in this museum that is already offering lessons and experiences to the pupils in the Bologna area. These experiences are democratically free of charge. Our idea is to offer a tinkering lab and a learning opportunity to the pupils, a fruitful form of training to the teachers and some guidance in the collection of materials. | Conference Name: | New perspectives in science education | Conference Place: | Firenze | Conference Date: | 22-23 marzo, 2018 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30038 | ISSN: | 2420-9732 | ISBN: | 9788862929769 9788862929765 |
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