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Meet the Makers
2013
Overview
Andrew Carle, a technology educator at Flint High School in Northern Virginia, scurries about the classroom, rearranging desks and chairs, strategically sprinkling around wires, batteries, transistors, and clocks--all the while a video camera whirs in the background. A few seconds later, 10 seventh graders saunter in and the room becomes a hive of activity. Students cluster in shifting groups of twos and threes, occasionally checking in with Carle, testing wires, referencing books and Macbooks. In that hour, compressed into 140 inspiring seconds on YouTube, the middle school students become consultants, designers, and builders. Or, as Carle and thousands of others like to call them, makers. The maker movement, known to past generations as DIY (do-it-yourself), encourages collaboration, invention, and radical participation with a single goal: to create new things. This maker ethos is gaining a serious foothold in education, both in practice and at the policy level. The White House's embrace of the maker movement is hard-wired into President Barack Obama's Educate to Innovate campaign to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. As the maker movement evolves, so, too, does the demand for a new kind of participatory public arena, commonly known as a maker space. Some leading maker machers--among them Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing--see librarians and makers as natural allies and think of libraries as a natural setting for creating a maker space.
