Building Star Wars Droids Made Me a Better Teacher
Josh Montgomery |
TEDxDayton
• November 2020
In a serendipitous moment of discovery, college professor Josh Montgomery stumbled into a surprisingly effective way to incorporate project-based learning into his computer technology classroom. The spark? – his personal hobby building his own lifesize, fully operational R2-D2 droid from Star Wars. Josh explains how failure is a necessary part of building, and how giving his students the power to choose whatever project they wished to build tapped into their own individual passions and unlocked amazing levels of creativity and ingenuity.