K 12 Education And Systems Engineering: A New Perspective
Ben Erwin
Abstract
In a classroom in the suburbs of Boston, a class of first-graders are designing snow removal equipment out of LEGO Dacta materials. Before breaking up into groups, they are having a class discussion about different types of equipment -shovels, plows, front-end loaders, etc. One boy raises his hand and says "Can we make up something different? I mean, can we just design something that hasn't been made before?" The teacher answers yes, and the boy turns to his LEGO partner and says "We are inventors!" "To understand is to invent.
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