If adults are finding interdisciplinary projects framed by personal interest as a way of learning practical ingenuity, creativity, and some analytic skills, perhaps there is a way educators can harness student passions (interests and motivations?) in a similar manner to achieve similar results.
Makers are engaged in activities that embody the Engineer of 2020 (e.g., lifelong learning, creativity, and practical ingenuity).
The attributes that engineers must possess to do their work are practical ingenuity, strong analytical skills, discovery and design, creativity, communication, accountability, mastery of principles of business and management, professionalism, and life-long learning (ABET 2014; NAE 2005).
By imagination, Goethe meant something more than practical ingenuity or empirical creativity.
It will be the mindset that encourages sound and practical ingenuity and shines the light on the way out.
To support himself during the search for Destry-Scholes, Nanson takes a "dogsbody" job with Puck's Girdle, a travel agency specializing in exotic customized holiday trips and managed by two harmonious homosexuals, Erik and Christophe, Danish and French respectively; it suggests one of those airy enterprises in Anne Tyler novels, more redolent of authorial ingenuity than of practical viability.
Since I planned to use my laptop, I was happy to find a conveniently placed electrical socket and, in a classic example of Scandinavian ingenuity in matters of practical design, a portable tabletop that attached easily to my chair.
Loads of practical ideas.
While formal education in many Confucian societies is a rote-work nightmare — and while Chinese families complain about their country's dysfunctional school system at least as bitterly as Americans do about ours — the practical-minded ingenuity of average people is one of China's most striking traits.
Four Types of Ingenuity: What kind of philosopher are you?
