By AnnMarie Thomas
This can be a e-book for fogeys and different educators—both formal and casual, who're interested in the intersections of studying and making. via tales, learn, and information, it builds the case for why it is important to motivate today’s formative years to be makers—to see the area as anything they're actively assisting to create. should you are new to the Maker move, a few historical past and creation is given in addition to functional suggestion for buying youngsters begun in making. in case you are already acquainted with the Maker move, this e-book presents biographical information regarding some of the “big names” and unsung heroes of the Maker circulate whereas additionally highlighting some of the attributes that make this a flow that such a lot of everyone is captivated with.
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The irony of this isn’t lost on him. ” 30 | MAKING MAKERS Figure 3-4. Ten-year-old Eric Rosenbaum (photo courtesy of Eric Rosenbaum) Eric is drawn to generativity, to new and surprising ways to combine things. This takes many forms: from inventing games, to making improvised music, to building creative software and tangible construction kits. As an elementary school student, he often spent long creative afternoons with a friend named Elan, who lived just up the street. They were constantly making up new games to play.
Figure 3-7. A young child building a Squishy Circuit using conductive and insulating dough I’ve found that very few people, when faced with a lump of play dough and LEDs, can resist playing with them. The feel of the dough, the lights and buzzers, and the scent of fresh play dough hold such a sway over people, that it has become an unofficial test for potential collaborators in our lab. Whenever someone is interested in the work that my students and I do in our Playful Learning group, I try to arrange for them to come play with some Squishy Circuits.
It is only through sheer, dumb luck that, to my knowledge, no one ever came to any harm through my callous disregard for risk. Rockets to Robots It turns out that even the person who taught me how to be safe in a machine shop had a history of youthful risk taking. When I started thinking about people to interview, Woodie Flowers (Figure 4-1) was at the top of my list. This self-described “weird kid” from Louisiana went on to become an Eagle Scout, an acclaimed MIT professor, and the co-founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition.