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Why design?
- Design projects engage students as active participants, giving
them a greater sense of control and responsibility for the
learning process; - Design projects encourage creative problem-solving;
- Design projects are often interdisciplinary, bringing together
ideas from art, technology, math, and sciences; - Design projects help students learn to put themselves in the
minds of others, since they need to consider how others will
use the things they create; - Design projects provide opportunities for reflection and
collaboration; - Design projects set up a positive-feedback loop of learning:
when students design things, they get new ideas, leading them
to design new things, from which they get even more ideas,
leading them to design yet more things, and so on.
