Rube Goldberg was an engineer known for his great inventions and on how he portrayed it. He expressed his work through art; he explained a task by drawing the process. Some examples of task solutions he made through drawings were How to get the cotton out of an aspirin candy and How to keep shop windows clean. He selected a simple task and transformed it to a complicated and interesting task, since he explained the process step by step.
I will like to apply Rube Goldberg’s ideas in my future classroom. As Oakley says in his article, students aren’t always book smart; some students understand better through art. Some children need to see and understand a task step by step, like Goldberg portrayed the tasks. For example, I might apply these types of task solutions by drawing to the children the process of how to wash their hands. It is a simple task but a very important one in which many children gets confused. For some children seeing this task step by step trough a drawing, they might understand better than by just explaining it orally.
*Question: Since Goldberg’s process of explaining a task goes from simple to complicated, might some students get confused?
*Date: October 17, 2010
*Time: 6:36 pm
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