Current location - Education and Training Encyclopedia - Educational institution - How to Understand "Maker Education"
How to Understand "Maker Education"
The word "Maker" comes from the English word "maker", which is divided into narrow sense and broad sense. In a narrow sense, a maker refers to a person who loves technology, is keen on practice, is willing to share, and strives to turn various ideas into reality. Maker in a broad sense refers to a person who is creative and can put it into practice for innovation. The common characteristics of makers are innovation, practice and sharing. Makers usually have rich interests and different specialties. Once they get together around the issues they are interested in, generate will show great innovation vitality. Maker education refers to introducing the concept of Maker into the general education system and implementing a series of comprehensive courses of innovative hands-on skills training to solve the problem of insufficient cultivation of innovative ability in the general education system.