这个思维习惯鼓励学生先练习把思想发散，为一件物品/系统思考各种新的可能性。然后再鼓励学生把新想法融合起来，决定一个有效率的方法去建立，修缮，打破物件/系统原貌，或者是重新设计一个物品/系统。
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activities and practicesMaterials Exploration
Materials Exploration
This practice promotes noticing, play, and exploration. When learners have time to tinker with materials they can gain an understanding of the affordances, possibilities, and constraints inherent in a variety of making materials.
Field NoteHacking Simple Systems: The Tale of an Incomplete Soccer Uniform
Hacking Simple Systems: The Tale of an Incomplete Soccer Uniform
Oakland Learning Community Tatum Omari’s builds on her experience with system redesign to hack her daughter’s soccer gear.
activities and practicesThe Elaboration Game
The Elaboration Game
This practice is designed to deepen learners’ sensitivity to design through drawing, observing, questioning, and collaborating.
pictures of practiceCollaborative Partnerships Through Systems Thinking
Collaborative Partnerships Through Systems Thinking
Educator Tatum Omari examines the system of educator collaborations and partnerships.
pictures of practiceMaker Empowerment and Resourcefulness
Maker Empowerment and Resourcefulness
A practice that promotes the capacity of looking closely is the Elaboration Game. This picture of practice essay shares a version that was adapted by educator Tatum Omari for a group of young learners to examine a tortilla press during their unit of study about bread making.
publicationsIdentifying What Matters
Identifying What Matters
In this essay, leaders of the Agency by Design Pittsburgh network Peter Wardrip, Jeffrey Evancho, and Annie McNamarra describe their process of pursuing documentation and assessment strategies for maker-centered learning that are based on the values educators bring to their work in schools and other settings. Using the metaphor of big rocks and little rocks as introduced by Steven Covey, the authors describe the process of identifying one’s values and documenting and assessing student learning from the perspective of one’s values. They then articulate the lessons they have learned and their suggestions for moving forward. The core findings that emerge from this work are: (a) identifying one’s values is challenging, (b) documentation requires practice, (c) one’s values are linked to one’s content, and (d) visibility supports measurement.
Field NoteTinkering Towards a Definition of Tinkering
Tinkering Towards a Definition of Tinkering
How do you define tinkering? In this post, Agency by Design principal investigator Shari Tishman tinkers towards a definition of tinkering that considers standard text book definitions, examples from real life tinkerers, and a consideration of the “symptoms” of tinkering.
activities and practicesMemorable Making Experience
Memorable Making Experience
A conversation starter and reflective activity for introducing young people and adults to making.