Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Keaton Wadzinski

Join the maker movement! There’s a technological and creative revolution underway. Amazing new tools, materials and skills turn us all into makers. Using technology to make, repair or customize the things we need brings engineering, design and computer science to the masses. Fortunately for educators, this maker movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children[…]

Digital Fabrication and ‘Making’ in Education: The Democratization of Invention

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Keaton Wadzinski

Every few decades or centuries, a new set of skills and intellectual activities become crucial for work, conviviality, and citizenship – often democratizing tasks and skills previously only accessible to experts. Digital fabrication and ‘making’ could be a new and major chapter in this process of bringing powerful ideas, literacies, and expressive tools to children.[…]