Making Education:
One of the emerging trends from the 2014 NMC Horizon Report is the growing prevalence of MakerSpaces in education. MakerSpaces (also called HackerSpaces) are places where people gather to build projects, collaborate, and incubate ideas. The best way to think of them is like "Industrial Arts class" for the 21st Century -- a flexible place where people can come together to do real-world, authentic work tasks outside of a traditional business setting.
There has been a long-standing trend in education of relegating vocational education to a second-tier status. Students who struggled academically were told they were "good with their hands" and tracked into industrial career training, while kids who could sit still and be quiet were deemed "college material" and offered honors courses in liberal arts and abstract math. The Maker revolution re-unites these two groups, bringing the physical and the digital together in an agile, DIY atmosphere...[continue reading]
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