Making in the classroom

Making – a simple “making”, a “doing it yourself”, a “tinkering” and “experimenting” provides on the one hand a high degree of freedom in the learning and teaching process. On the other hand, Making offers the opportunity to offer motivating and interdisciplinary project lessons and can promote the acquisition of computational thinking skills. Making bundles offers around single-board computers, sensors and actuators, visual programming languages, animation, electronics or robotics, as well as working with technical tools, textiles and handicraft materials. In interaction with natural science subjects such as biology or in design, interdisciplinary offers can arise. Technical understanding, creative problem solving and manual dexterity should also be trained – according to a quote by Jesper Juul: “Children are more researchers than pupils: they have to experiment and draw their own conclusions.”