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AriaMinaei on Oct 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate t...

Alternative take is that education has been anti-maker/anti-doer and it has been so for a long time.

The constructionist movement is trying to change that. To make making be the education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theo...

huachimingo on Oct 6, 2021 [–]

The common question at school, even at Uni: "How this is useful, at the _practical_ level"

How the hell are you supposed to motivate them about calculus if its all so abstract (see limits)?

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