I have been reading this...only US$8.71 on Kindle. It's a great read and reinforces the maker movement philosophy and it's role in facilitating effective learning. Key points for me were:
CHAPTER ONE:
- a focus on the 'just in time' educational model, teaching on demand, rather than the more traditional 'just-in-case model that covers a curriculum fixed in advance in the hopes that it will include something that will later be useful.
- Seymour Papert: "Does the computer program the child or the child program the computer?"
- Making is a stance that puts the learner at the centre of the educational process and creates opportunities that students may never have encountered themselves. Makers are confident, competent, curious citizens in a new world of possibility.
- Teachers hold the key to liberating the learner. The values, tools, and activities of the maker movement enrich and accelerate that process.
- Using real tools in pursuit of authentic problem solving.
- When soldering, prototyping, programming & inventing return to the lives of children, remarkable projects result.
CHAPTER ONE:
- a focus on the 'just in time' educational model, teaching on demand, rather than the more traditional 'just-in-case model that covers a curriculum fixed in advance in the hopes that it will include something that will later be useful.
- Seymour Papert: "Does the computer program the child or the child program the computer?"
- Making is a stance that puts the learner at the centre of the educational process and creates opportunities that students may never have encountered themselves. Makers are confident, competent, curious citizens in a new world of possibility.
- Teachers hold the key to liberating the learner. The values, tools, and activities of the maker movement enrich and accelerate that process.
- Using real tools in pursuit of authentic problem solving.
- When soldering, prototyping, programming & inventing return to the lives of children, remarkable projects result.