There are so many great programmable technologies out there for students to engage in the real world today. We have 3d printers that can help the student learn about engineering, laptops that have all the knowledge of the world, robots that can be programmed. Any school could go and buy these wonderful resources with the hope that learning will change. Student achievement will skyrocket because they have the newest technology out there.
Those schools will fail and be frustrated because education has not changed, students are still not achieving. Coding robots will not change education nor student achievement. Cardboard will.
Imagine a getting a new box. Today, we may just recycle it or use it to wrap a present in. We might think back to our childhood creating wondrous things. A box was the epitome of endless creativity. It’s not the box itself that was special, it was what we choose to do with the box that mattered.
The same needs to be said about technology. It’s the choices that change education. How are we going to use that box of endless creativity? Could we have students act like historians by creating a monument using a 3 D printer? We could even use cardboard to help build an animal robot to help students understand adaptations. Why not use cardboard to build a piano or circuit board using conductive paint!
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