Even if You Don’t Make Things, You’re Important to the Community
Your role in the maker community doesn’t depend on physically making something
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Mentorship Makes a Difference in Schools and Education
Students pursuing education on their own terms need teachers and administrators willing to work with them and provide mentorship.
Don’t Dismiss Tips or Techniques Because They’re Old Hat … to You
Something that’s new to someone may be old hat to you, but why tarnish that moment of discovery for someone else with a dismissive comment.
Stop Teaching Programming, Start Teaching Computational Thinking
Educators want to teach programming to make a generation of coders, but even non-coders can benefit from learning computational thinking.
One Reason MIT Isn’t Getting Maker Portfolios from Women: It’s in the Comments
Internet culture plays a huge role in discouraging some female Makers from sharing their projects.
What’s the Point of Making Something You Could Buy?
Why we make the things we make and why making versus buying is far more than just a question of cost and time.
Magical vs. Hackable
I meet more and more folks in education that are contemplating swapping out laptops with complete operating systems like Linux, Max OSX, or Windows in favor of tablets (or most recently the advent of Chromebooks). I’m in favor of more complete systems because, while not being sufficient conditions for creating the next generations of inventors, engineers, and makers, it certainly is necessary to do so.
