How can the concept of “tinkering school” be applied to Chilean public classrooms?
The concept of “tinkering school” can be applied in order to make students create meaningful things for them. We can encourage them to think about things that are not already created and also consider want they would like to have. As a result, they can start being motivated by that. Furthermore, teachers have to be aware of the interests students have, so it is important to have as much materials as we can, otherwise, they (students) might be encouraged to create just certain kind of things depending on the materials available they have. On the contrary, the idea here is to open their minds as much as they can. Also, this project consists on making students work just in the things they want to, but in a Chilean public school where children are not used to work this way, at the beginning they may need the teacher’s help in order to follow or understand the concept of the project. The teacher or mentor also have to be aware and consider the social context in which this is been applied. For instance, if we are proposing the project in a high society, this could work thinking about future engineers but also we can encourage poor people about using them in their future (being future engineers and other things as well),but in terms of, if they do have good grades at school, then their future might change by having a better life style. That is why this project is a good one to work in public schools, were children can learn useful things to make or create things to use in their daily life and also for having fun, considering that it is for little children.
