SketchUp enthusiasts, professionals, developers… heck, friends from across the globe gathered in snowy Vail, Colorado for 3D Basecamp 2014.
The library now also has reading lounge areas with comfortable modular seating, as well as tables with chairs and stools that students are free to move around; two music studios; a HackerSpace (with high-tech equipment such as a microscope, 3D printer, gaming hardware and software, and a green screen for filming) and a Maker Space that also houses a 3D printer and serves as a “hands-on” craft room where old technology can be disassembled and re-configured with other materials. In short, the Monticello Library Media Center has become a “Learning Commons.”
LONDON 30th January 2013 – Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is announcing a partnership with Makerversity, a making and learning start-up in London, to introduce “The Pearson Lab” - a classroom of the future.
In this demo-filled talk MIT’s Mitch Resnick, one of the main creators of the kids coding program called Scratch, outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just “read” new technologies — but also create them.