If you are not yet familiar with Arduino, you’ve been missing out on arguably the biggest trend in DIY electronics. In fact, the Open Source hardware movement wouldn’t be complete without Massimo Banzi, co-inventor of the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that’s inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things [...]
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Open Source Hardware & The Maker Movement
Posted by ginac on June 28th, 2012
Unschooling and the Maker Culture
Posted by ginac on November 10th, 2011
Unschoolers are radical mavericks who approach learning 180 degrees in the opposite direction from traditional education. Unschoolers learn in an unstructured environment almost completely devoid of teachers, separate subjects, grades, tests, or quizzes. Instead, unschoolers hack together their learning palette from many sources to create a truly personal learning experience. Unschoolers are active learners who [...]
Posted in Crowdsource, Eclectic Homeschooling, Economics, Electronics, Interdisciplinary, Learning Methods, Make, News, social change 
Tags: DIY, Hack, make, maker, Maker culture, Open source, Tim O'Reilly, UnCollege, Unschooling 
Comments OffMAKE Chronicles Project-Based Learning
Posted by ginac on August 24th, 2011
SpottyBanana loves project-based learning. We can’t think of a better way to showcase project-based learning than through chronicling a maker project. MAKE’s Zero to Maker column is chronicling newbie maker David Lang’s project-based learning approach to gaining Do-It-Yourself (DIY) skills. Follow David as he progresses from novice to maker phenom! At the bottom of the [...]
Posted in Back to School, Interdisciplinary, Learning Methods, Make Tags: child-led learning, DIY, hands-on learning, make, maker, Project-based learning Comments Off
