Learning To Fail
As you watch the video:
- Notice how the facilitators respond when the machines don’t work.
- Listen for strategies you can use to help youth learn from failure.
- Look for strategies that encourage perseverance.
Now that you’ve watched the video, reflect on what you saw.
- What strategies would you like to use to encourage youth learn failure?
- What strategies would you like to use to encourage perseverance?
Explore Engineering Practices
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Designing Unique Balloon-Powered Vehicles
Engineers think innovatively to envision multiple possible solutions to open-ended problems. Youth apply this practice as they design unique balloon-powered vehicles.
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Where Are You Stuck?
Notice how the facilitator nudges learners to find their own solutions as they create the algorithms that control their agents in the virtual world.
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DIVEE
Lemond uses an acronym, DIVEE, and rhythm to make the engineering design process more accessible to youth.