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What does maker education mean?
Maker education is an educational concept with innovative ideas and research experience. A new educational model that pays attention to practice, creates learning and cultivates innovative talents. A quality education based on students' interests, using digital tools in the way of project learning, advocating creation, encouraging sharing, and cultivating interdisciplinary problem-solving ability, teamwork ability and innovation ability.

Maker education in a broad sense should be an educational form oriented to cultivating the spirit of mass makers. In a narrow sense, maker education should be an educational model oriented to cultivate learners' maker literacy, especially young learners.

Generally speaking, maker education is a new way of quality education that points to teenagers' core literacy. Through interdisciplinary knowledge learning, creative design and hands-on realization, we will cultivate young people's ability to learn to learn, scientific spirit and practice innovation. Maker education emphasizes creativity, practice and sharing, and pays attention to interdisciplinary and combination with scientific and technological means.

Maker, from the English word "maker", refers to a kind of person who points out his hobbies and tries to turn various ideas into reality.

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Maker education is to guide children to practice through engineering construction, electronic circuits, programming and scientific knowledge, so that children can make inventions and creations on the basis of understanding the world and realize the expansion and utilization of interdisciplinary knowledge.

Maker education encourages students to invent and create by themselves, in which teachers mainly play a guiding role and encourage group cooperative learning; On the other hand, maker education is a comprehensive education with collective creativity and cross-border integration, which requires natural integration and application of knowledge from various disciplines, taking care of children's talents and interests as much as possible, thus stimulating the potential behind each child.