Creative design principle of youth maker Education

The essence of makers is “ gen ”, That is, creativity . The best way to stimulate a person's creativity is from childhood . The source of children creating a new thing is their curiosity and imagination about the unknown world . Is this all right ？ The answer, of course, is No . Children have a desire to create new things , Next, you need to have the following capabilities . This is the real outlet of maker education — Cultivate people who have the thinking of creating new things and the ability to create new things . The most typical example , In most maker education, students are trained to build robots .

In the process , The teacher will lead the students how the robot lifts objects 、 The decomposition action structure of transporting objects and transporting objects is completed , Students will naturally combine these decomposition actions into robots with special functions according to their imagination , It can even optimize these steps of maker education resources . therefore , A maker in maker education must be an inventor who has ideas and realizes his own ideas independently .

Maker education “ teach ”. Some people will think , I bought all the equipment and tutorials for children to carry out maker activities , Let children study how to splice robots and how to program robots by themselves , About children's maker Education Exhibition , Why are there endless maker training institutions ？ Existence is reason . This involves maker education “ teach ” What's the charm of the game . Children can participate in design activities collectively in the maker class , And discuss , In this process, children's ability to communicate with others will be greatly improved . In the process of participating in maker education, children will participate in some group international competitions , There are even United Games . During the competition, everyone worked together as a whole to achieve a common goal , But only play one role , This will allow children to find their own suitable positions in the collective from an early age . The primary school maker laboratory grew up in this environment , Intellectual and non intellectual aspects have been comprehensively and effectively cultivated . When the children grow up , Few people become inventors , But this kind of education will enable children to live comfortably in this social environment with high-speed development and high cooperation .

World science education presents a bright prospect and trend for maker education , This is the education that we should attach great importance to the development of creativity . For example, there are also some misunderstandings among teenagers , For example, teenagers carry out DIY（do it yourself） This hands-on scientific and technological innovation activity , Involving robot maker education , They think innovation 、 It's maker education , It's not . If the maker education is compared with the general innovation education of teenagers , Maker education has a clear theoretical and practical basis , In terms of theoretical basis , The maker education solution is actually the maker movement welcoming the third industrial revolution . In the era of change today , The Internet has spawned makers , In the long tail effect , A large number of niche products in the tail are as attractive as those mass products due to the existence of the Internet .

Maker education is DIY The improvement of educational thought . In the past, teenagers were carrying out innovative activities , Make robots , But this kind of production process is often guided by teachers , Students are actually skill training . But maker education is to give him something later , The maker education company let him find the results by himself , In fact, it is from known to unknown . So teenagers' creativity is immeasurable , This is a big improvement on the goal .

In essence, maker education is characterized by openness 、 The spirit, culture and idea of cooperation and sharing , Because it advocates open source hardware , such as Arduino, It is also open source software and open source community , Include O2O online . So on the whole , It can be said that at the same time, a very clear concept of maker education is practice 、 The fusion 、 to open up 、 Share , It's a spirit 、 Culture and new ideas . The most fundamental thing about maker education is how to be creative from teenagers , So we should pay attention to the layout of the maker classroom , Cultivation of innovative thinking and innovative methods . The first is to let teenagers break the mindset in the process of growing up . For example, Sima Guang broke the VAT in ancient times , Saving people can't save him. Let the water go , This is a reverse thinking . The second is to ask more why with the concept of metacognition .“ We need to know more than what it is , And know why . Therefore, in the process of cultivating Chinese maker education, one sentence is very important ： The process is more important than the answer , This is to use metacognition for in-depth education , Make him not only know what it is , And know why .”

Do a good job in maker education , We must focus on the following four points ： First , You must climb from the bottom , A high-rise building must be built from the ground floor , Today, we must master the characteristics of maker education and the basis of its theory and practice , To cultivate real makers ; Secondly, maker classroom design , Flow induced Valley self deepening , Great reforms must be carried out , Not the youth education in the past . Again , Get an axe to the class gate , To innovate . Finally, learn alchemy , The key is to master the methods of maker innovation .

in summary , The reason why maker education can quickly become a hot favorite in the education industry is that it undertakes the most direct aspect of teaching and educating people —— honest . Now various school science and technology festival programming competitions and robot competitions are popular all over the world , It is common for individual teachers to make works for students and participate in competitions . The reason is , It is because the children do not have the knowledge reserve and design ideas to complete the works independently . Individual schools and teachers can only fake their grades . Such practices not only hurt students , It is also a failure in education . Actually , In Education , Honesty is more important than cleverness . Maker education makes it possible to stifle this failure in education and at the same time provides a guarantee .