Brian C. Smith's List: Learning 2.013

• Teachers will see a chance to reimagine U.S. science education.
• Parents should see a chance to replace the usual after-school and summer routines with activities that captivate kids in positive ways
• Based on 16 years of hearing pitches about the next great thing in education, what jumps out is that demand from young people -- not the education industry's desire to supply something -- is driving the maker movement.
• Schools caught up in the standardized testing sweepstakes tend to reduce classroom time for science. When schools do teach science, too often they are "telling students about science" -- and drilling for memorization -- instead of engaging them.
• give kids the right resources and some motivating content and then get out of the way.
• Mitra's notion of "minimally invasive education," young people are taking it upon themselves to decide what to make.
• "What I'm really interested in is an alternative way of engaging kids and getting them into science and technology," Dougherty said.

  • The message has to be more than science & technology or STEM.  It has to be all inclusive. We tinker with more than just electronics and computers, makers can tinker with paper and even words.  

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