Learning by making is an accepted principle amongst teachers and educators of all sorts of persuasions. Whilst it is true that the maker movement can give young people a different kind of access to communities and resources and allow them to work with peers or directly to market, thus (possibly) shaking down the traditional through routes from school to college to work, and whilst it is true that there may well be metaphorical gold in plastic, none of this would have had any effect on educationalists if they weren't already predisposed to view the act of making and its associated disciplines as central to the processes of effective learning.
Kevin Hodgson on 27 Jun 13I think the idea of making has certain resonance right now. As the world gets more digital, there is more a need to remember how we created without technology.
Make Cycle 2 Questions | connectiv maker? Why make? Why now? What happens when makers converge around shared interests and purposes? What opportunities might we seize? How do we find and build diverse and inspiring networks of people, resources, and places that support our making and learning?