Friday, February 22, 2019

Just Make It #MakerEd

I've had some conversations about making in the classroom lately and I feel it always comes down to me telling teachers, "just let them make".

Teachers can often overthink certain aspects of the curriculum or instruction when all that needs to happen is getting out of the way fort he students to create. I have found some of the most amazing things done in the classroom is when the teacher removes themselves from the equation in some way.

Some might read this as a shirking of a teacher's responsibility of teaching students, but they teacher is teaching them something by letting them go. That freedom to make brings so much to students that sitting and listening to a lecture cannot do. The freedom to make supports student creativity and drives their engagement.

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but why don't we let students just make it? What are the reasons that keep us from letting them do just that?

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