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4th Partners’ Meeting and peer training
The 4thpartners meeting combined with an intensive Peer-to-Peer Training seminar on the upcoming tinkering Toolbox was hosted by MIO-ECSDE in Athens, between 6 & 8 February 2024. During the meeting the partners...
Activity test: Balancing Sculptures
A group of students in 6th grade of Helgafellsskóli Iceland tested two activities that are being developed for the tinkering toolkit of our project Tink@School! The activities are coordinated by Anna Bjarnadóttir and...
Activity test: Make something that moves in a quirky way
A few weeks ago NEMO staff tested one activity that is foreseen to be included in our TINK@SCHOOL project Toolkit. Let’s find out how it went! Thanks Judith Bal and Inka de Pijper for sharing the process and your...
Problem solved through tinkering !
Read bellow how our colleague Ólafur from Iceland, applied the tinkering mentality to solve a practical problem in his surroundings: Upon returning from Milan I went up north to attend to a little eider colony we have...
Our methodology toolkit is ready!
Within the first months of the project a guide for developing Tinkering activities with a focus on sustainability has been prepared.The guide, originally in English language (other languages will follow) is thought to...
Shadow-Art for Sustainability
Can we create interesting shadow art using materials from a recycling bin or items collected during a beach clean-up? Apparently yes, according to our TINK@School team that, during their meeting in Milano (June 2023)...
2nd Partners Meeting, Milano, June 2023
The 2nd Partners Meeting was kindly organised by Bartolomeo Association in Milano, between 6 and 7 June 2023. During the meeting the Partners had the opportunity to discuss the progress achieved and the next steps in...
Tinkering for learning, equity, and social inclusion
In this featured article of Spokes/ Ecsite, a series educators and practitioners are interviewed on the potential of Tinkering for creating more equitable STEM learning environments for diverse learners and learners...
Practitioner’ reflections from a tinkering workshop
Interesting reading of a blog-article with reflections from a participant attending a three day long workshop on tinkering, that took place in the period November 2022- January 2023. It is written in the form of a...
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