Testing and education

karl ramberg <[email protected]>
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Article in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/06/maker_faire_and_science_education_american_kids_should_be_building_rockets_and_robots_not_taking_standardized_tests_.html

One thing I experience with making stuff : I learn more from thing
that I do wrong or fail at than things I do that happen to work or be
right.
It is sad when school punish mistakes. Mistakes are a opportunity to
investigate and see what went wrong. And by doing that you learn.


Karl
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