Ten Rules for Designing Effective “Maker" Learning

Description:

The “maker” movement has been touted as an antidote to many of today's challenges in education, but many educators don’t have a clear sense of how “maker” learning works. This session will also introduce participants to a central rationale for instituting “maker” learning. Faced with the flood of media that characterizes the Third Age of Information — some valuable, some meaningless, some real, some fake — “maker” learning provides a direct response to the Third Age’s central challenge: evaluation. When learners make, they hone important skills for analysis and discernment, developing the critical and creative skills necessary for solving real challenges and for engaging the world beyond school.