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I am a high school engineering teacher that likes to be cutting edge. Our next project is called the iFixit teardown, in honor of your site. The project entails that students, in teams of two, are to create a teardown of a machine, device, or other piece of tech. They are encouraged use your site as their inspiration, their guide, their tutor.

What I would love to know is if my students tag their work, could they receive feedback for their work? Is there anyway iFixit could support this? Maybe a junior iFixit sub site?

In addition, I would love to have someone from iFixit appear on Skype (or other better means), to speak to my students about the site, why it was created, and how it solved a problem in the 21st Century.

Would any of this be possible? I look forward to your answer!

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Hey Jason,

Thanks for your email and inquiry. We think it is awesome that you're inspiring students to and engaging them with a teardown project! Currently, our K-12 resources exist here (http://k12.ifixit.com/) and while we don't have a teardown project per se, we do have a Fast Fix Project with a sandbox for student to create content. You are welcome to have students sign-up via that process and instead of creating Fast Fix projects, create teardowns (http://k12.ifixit.com/c/Fast_Fix).

Currently, we are unable to offer feedback for K-12 students. We're working on developing more formal programs, like we have for university students, but we just aren't quite there yet. However, there is a lot of helpful information on the Fast Fix project about guide writing and photography. If the guides end up working out, we can import them to the full iFixit site for the world to see!

As far as connecting with you students via Skype—it really depends on the timing. We love talking with students, but we are a really small team supporting thousands of students. Please send us an email at education[at]ifixit[dot]com about arranging a virtual classroom visit. I can't promise anything—but we'll do out best.

Thanks for all your hard work in the classroom inspiring our next generation of tinkerers, engineers, and fixers.

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@blameebner what a great idea. Maybe fabulous @kaykay could pick this up and get you going with your project. I think it would be great to have them be part of Answers. Just somehow identify your students by their username. The users on "Answers" will be providing constructive feedback and the mods will make sure that anything other than constructive will not be tolerated.

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Hello Brittany!

I have actually created my own assignment that maybe we can tweak together and make it better. The assignment is in two parts.

  1. 1-I have created a practice unit here to help students get in the right frame of mind to create a tear down.
  2. 2-The second one will be exactly the same, except we will replace the paper with an actual device.
  3. 3-I will have students use the resources you posted to help them with formatting!

This is a start, and if we can do something more, let's make it happen!

Thank you all for your time!

Sincerely,

Jason Ebner

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Had to look up Prezi. I take it your students are doing this on iPads?

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I agree with how you're doing it, for the most part. I don't like Prezi personally since the presentations are public domain unless you pay. It's an okay option, but you have to pay to have any level of privacy on your presentations. I would suggest Google Side over Prezi for "cloud" presentation storage since most people are not going to pay.

It's not a criticism with your approach - just a heads up.

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Hi Mayer, no we are doing this on some really robust desktops.

Nick, the great things about Prezi outweigh the issue with it not being private. Most of the work the kids do is meant for the outside world. The EDGE Academy (Engineering Design for a Green Environment) believes a lot in WBL (work based learning) and giving the students real world experiences. Having their work critiqued by Engineers, students of Engineering, and professionals is the best feedback imaginable. That is why I am here on iFixit. Also why I put my lesson out there, so people can critique it, borrow it, tweak it, and just outright steal it. Hopefully this could be something for the site!

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@blameebner I accidentally answer some of these question before spotting that they are from students. But if you want, I'll call 'um the way I see 'um. Which I pretty well do anyway. I look for a few things. Statements without support or links get a very critical eye. Rice as a desiccant will always get flamed. Old wives tales are frowned upon. Students running up the voting on poor questions or answers. Making references to guides or teardowns that don't exist is frowned upon. No responses to comments and/or questions about an Q&A doesn't help. Not being specific as to the make or model is not good. We now have some really good answer contributors, that started out poorly but after some critiquing became good. Mean spirited people tend to get run off the site. We do try to have a good time and joke on the site. There are some very sharp people here. If you don't mind telling, what are the age ranges of your students? I ask to know just how much slack to give them ;-)

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Mayer, this is awesome.

My students are freshman in high school, so they range from 14 to 15 years of age. The students have been through one project, "Machines of the Gods", in which they have built a Greek or Roman Machine to set-up their understanding of Greek society. They were to take that understanding and apply it to reading the Odyssey in 9th grade English.

So, each assignment we ask our students to do has an extrapolation point. For this project, their tear down project, posting their instructions to iFixit is that extrapolation. I hope this is okay. If not, I need to change my instructions on the fly. Which I can do.

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