Teaching Tip: Innovating through repair

Two rocks on metal posts
Photo by Nathan Feemster
Darleen Masiak got a rock saw from the transfer site and then, after minor repairs, made the piece Musical Notes in 2010 from cut rock and reclaimed steel.

Turning inward as a community, sharing used resources and repairing as needed is an Alaska way of life. Just as transfer sites are a physical manifestation of this, we can create and find places online that allow us to share and reuse discarded resources for teaching and learning.

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— Teaching Tip by Nathan Feemster, an instructional designer with 10 years of experience in creating learning experiences for institutional and informal environments