Roundup on Maker Faire and Future of Learning Coverage
Maker Faire brought out a flurry of ideas about how making, innovation and design are causing us to re-think education. Here are my favorites. Huge thank you to all the bloggers for helping celebrate Maker Faire!
Beth Rabbitt: Teacher Innovation, Making, and Underwater Mood Robots (EdUpgrade)
Robert Schwartz: Enabling Schools of the Future (Huffington Post)
Tom Vander Ark: Maker High - Why Every School Should be a Maker Faire (Getting Smart)
Betsy Corcoran: Maker Movement Inspires Students, Teachers (San Francisco Chronicle)
Josh Densen: I Want a School For Makers (thinkschools)
Jennifer Medbery: Reinventing Education to Teach Creativity and Entrepreneurship (Fast Company)
Alex Hernandez: We Need A Fab Lab For Education (Innosight Institute)
Ben Daley: I Want a Classroom Full of Craftsmen (thinkschools)
Brian Greenberg: What We’ve Got Here is a Failure of Imagination (blendmylearning)
Michael Horn: Making Education Innovation Come to Life (Forbes)
Marie Bjerede: DIY Learning - Schoolers, Edupunks, and Makers Challenge Education As We Know It (O’Reilly Media)
MAKE: Why Educators Want to Attend Maker Faire 2012 (Makezine)
Levi Sumagaysay: Palo Alto Fab Lab Teaches Students to Create and Build (San Jose Mercury)