remembering making stuff
Reading the Science of Lego Serious Play brought back many memories of school.
“constructivist learning happens especially well when people are engaged in constructing a product, something external to themselves”
I remember lots of making stuff: making clay birds & fruit pictures in art lessons; designing stamps and fruit boxes in product design; a bag in home economics; and a mirror, a chess box and a candlestick in CDT.
But it wasn’t just in the obvious classes. I also remember making a seed packet for rice in geography, making paper chains in an economics class, making models of roman bath houses in history. I’ve still got all that stuff – except the paper chains.
The odd thing is I was a science and maths geek. I don’t really remember those classes. I haven’t kept any things from them.