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Educational Trends: The Maker Movement

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:57 am
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Written by Ines Lendinez
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Technological inventions bring great benefits to our daily lives. They help us to carry out tasks efficiently, to stay up to date and to share our knowledge. Little by little we have been educating ourselves in the digital age, but human beings have always had the need to create, to do things for themselves. Its promoter and inventor of the term WEB 2.0, Dale Dougherty, realised this quality and decided to promote it until it became a movement over the years. The maker movement . A phenomenon that emerged precisely from the Internet. Where the knowledge to be developed is shared and then made in an artisanal way. Technology helps them to learn, explore and carry out their ideas. Both young people and adults are encouraged to participate. There is no age range or experience, what counts is the desire to innovate.

According to its creator, “we are all makers ”. “We have this ability to do things to show that we understand something” and that something also invites us to play. “They play to discover what technology can do and perhaps to discover what they can do themselves. What their own capabilities are” . They consider it a new industrial estonia phone data revolution. Its philosophy is based on “Do It Yourself” (DIY), a term that has recently become popular and which deals with creating our own objects and trying not to consume what surrounds us.

“A Maker is someone who draws identity and meaning from the act of creation. What distinguishes contemporary makers from inventors of other times is the incredible power that modern technologies and a globalized economy provide them, to connect and learn and as a means of production and distribution.”
Education is trying to embrace the Maker movement , entering spaces where students and young innovators can learn about STEAM disciplines . Stimulating creative thinking and inviting them to participate. For many teachers, Maker culture is also a way of generating solidarity and teamwork. These are fundamental ways of fostering values ​​such as respect and critical thinking.

This trend is gradually reaching the classrooms themselves. A proposal is made to the board to give up a space or include it as a syllabus in one of the subjects. Here in Spain, it is occurring in technology classes and in some subjects related to robotics. There are also spaces such as Mooc Cultura Maker en el aula and Make & Learn , platforms dedicated to teaching Maker culture .

Maker Movement: Maker Spaces