Building bridges: Bringing engineering into your classroom

Anne Vize

By Anne Vize
Community contribution / May 19, 2016

Engineering is not an inaccessible discipline best left to the highly mathematical, but rather an area of challenge which can be fascinating, precise and beautiful in its simplicity and design.

The eyes of the practitioners and learners within the STEM community have recently been focused upon the work of engineers ...

This story appeared in the Term 2, 2016 edition of TechnologyEd.

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Anne Vize is the author of the best selling book The A to Z of Specialist and Inclusive Education (2nd edition) and Partnerships with Families of Children with Additional Needs, published by Essential Resources. https://www.essentialresources.com.au/Store/Author/Detail/ANNVIZ You can check out more about Anne's writing at https://www.annevizewriting.com/

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