Yesterday, I gathered my students to the carpet to debrief. I listened to their conversations and connections and then, as one little guy in my class tinkered with various little treasures from his desk, I remembered an article that I had recently read.
"Guys, you know I call _____ my little tinkerer, right? Well, I recently read that girls don't tinker enough. I'm going to bring in Kane's old Bionicles and Legos and we have to tinker more. Apparently, it could be one reason why we don't see enough females in the science and engineering fields. Boys tinkle naturally."
They were rolling all over the carpet in fits of giggles at my little malapropism. I had to laugh, too.