ATL Montfort School Guwahati

ATL LAB AT DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL,SONEPAT This lab is one of the most important attraction of our school which give experience to middle school and junior school students a idea about robotics and te...

What is Tinkering?

The word has a long history. Around 700 years ago there used to be wandering tinsmiths who repaired various household items that needed just a bit of small repair here and there. It was given the name tinkering that generally means a little bit of repair or preening in an unfocused way. Now how is it connected to the education industry of today’s world? For that, we need to enter into a child’s brain. It is whimsical, curious, inquisitive and, well, naughty! But the biggest thing to consider here is that it is not focused. A child, who is enjoying learning alphabets now with rapt attention, might see a butterfly flying around in the classroom and will start running behind it. Before you know the child’s attention towards learning alphabets is already broken and now he is all after the beautiful butterfly. Why blame the only butterfly? There are many other things that can affect child’s attention quite instantly, right from tintinnabulation of a bell to his best friend beckoning him.