Education - Maker Spaces

Dealing with real world solutions through authentic learning is the connection that can be made from The Maker Movement Manifesto to education.  If we are teaching students to go through the process of idea, design, making, re-design, and eventual invention, we must offer them opportunities to work through real life problems with credible solutions. The Maker Movement Manifesto cited many success stories where business’ R&D costs were a fraction of what they would have been 15 years ago. Now, we must prepare students for this new world of innovation.

Engagement in all levels of education is a desirable outcome of curriculum.   Educational spaces that contain inventories of materials used to create real world solutions to issues that students identify themselves would generate engagement at all levels.

• Strathmore Alberta in-school website of Design Thinking links for Teachers