I was at a class last week upping my game on my 3D printing skills as well as learning some other tech innovations we have available on our Upper School campus with laser cutters and CNC machines. Given I spent most of my career in education in the elementary homeroom classroom, I continually am up-leveling my skills now that I teach K-5 Technology.
In the class, we watched this 2018 TED Talk "A Makerspace for Everyone" by Robin Hooker about the maker mindset. Innovation and embracing the design process in a maker space environment makes the world "collisionable"--where people come together with their ideas, culture, tools, and technology, forming a community. It is here where these ideas "collide" and where sparks come alive and innovation happens.
I've long said, it is innovation and technology that will fuse to form the solutions to today's problems! Makerspaces can be places where this happens!
Video from https://youtu.be/9lSZgCaMS20?si=3NnJQ05BEwYIeCIQ, image from https://spencerauthor.com/classroom-makerspace/maker-mindset-001-2/
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