The National Museum of the American Indian holds a wealth of resources that students can use to learn about engineering, to learn how humans relate to engineering, and finally, to learn how to learn, by interrogating artifacts. The bigger and surprise take-away for me, in using the museum in engineering pedagogy, was my transformation in the way I think about teaching critical thinking skills. The key is the idea of “ interrogation.” Once students learn how to question, they can use their engineering skills to test claims. The mechanics of democracy are in the transformation of learning to the interrogation model.
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