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| Can the Maker Movement Infiltrate Mainstream Classrooms? |
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- The spirit of play and discovery of knowledge is missing from much of formal education. Students not only have no experience with making or the tools needed to build things, they’re often at a tactile deficit. “Schools haven’t changed, but the students have,” Dan Dougherty, founder of Maker Faire, and editor of Make Magazine said. “They don’t come with these experiences.”
- Dougherty often watches kids as they interact with hands-on experiments or materials at Maker Faire events. “It’s almost aggressively manipulating and touching things because they’re not used to it,” he said, which is unfortunate because that kind of work is in high demand in doing engineering or mechanical jobs.
- “Even at the university level we’re choosing talent based on math scores, not on capabilities and demonstrated abilities,” Dougherty said. “I think kids are going to be the drivers of change in this.”
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