Cultivating A Repair Mindset
Use this educational repair toolkit to guide young learners to resourcefulness and student agency
repairing broken technology is extremely important. It is imperative that we learn to repair and fix things that are broken so we can keep as much of our technology out of the landfill as possible.
Use this educational repair toolkit to guide young learners to resourcefulness and student agency
People have always repaired things. What’s new is that there is such an abundance of information and expertise available online to help anyone do repair.
A lifelong fixer himself, Wayne Seltzer started the U-Fix-It Clinic in Boulder, Colorado to help others learn to fix things. Wayne helped put the “you” in Fixit Clinics, making sure they empowered people to learn to do the repairs themselves rather than having an expert do it for them.
iFixit is building a path toward a repairable world, one teardown at a time.
They’ve stacked the decks against servicing your own purchases;
The community is now resisting
— and winning.
We aimed to make every repair possible for someone who had never been inside a computer before