All posts by Honor Mackley

Honor Mackley is a highly experienced and practising primary teacher with full registration with the Queensland College of Teachers. In 2020, Honor was awarded a Master of Education (Research). Her thesis examined the role of outdoor, recycled, loose parts play materials in developing collaborative behaviours amongst children (Mackley, 2019; see also Mackley et al., 2021). Honor is extending this work in loose parts play to consider the relationship between tinkering and digital technologies in ECEC. In addition, she coordinates and facilitates STEM-related tinkering workshops with Year One and Year Two students in a Brisbane primary school. Honor is a PhD candidate on the ARC Linkage Project ‘Young children in digital society: Building an online tool for service provision’.

Tinker play with unplugged tech

Posted on June 26, 2023 by

Tinkering with non-working digital technologies, writes Honor Mackley, a Brisbane-based primary teacher and ECEC researcher at Australian Catholic University, increases children’s wellbeing, boosts active learning and interest in technologies, and lays the groundwork for play-based learning with functional technology. What is tinkering? What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘tinkering’? People often associate […]

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