{"id":4121,"date":"2018-04-23T14:18:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/sdgc\/cgi-bin\/ycisl\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2018-04-23T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:18:27","slug":"wsj-schools-as-maker-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ycisl.su.domains\/?p=4121","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: Schools As ‘Maker Spaces’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the WSJ’s The Future of Everything section on Saturday April 21, 2018, I noticed an article titled “Schools As ‘Maker Spaces” by Leigh Kamping Carder. The article is brief, but it does point to several important ideas when it comes to introducing creativity to elementary and middle school students.<\/p>\n

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  1. “…cues from Silicon Valley’s startup incubators.”\u00a0A better model than a\u00a0startup incubator may be a research laboratory where experimental skills are nurtured. Students should pick up skills which can be reproduced and improved over time. A laboratory may capture a youth’s imagination more vividly than an incubator.<\/li>\n
  2. “…flexible work groups.” This is definitely worth exploring further. Flexible workspaces as well as collaboration groups are primers to creative productivity. One could also extend flexibility to the work styles, communication channels and oversight. Encourage divergent thinking.<\/li>\n
  3. “Maker Spaces.” At Stanford, we have the d.School, Product Realization Labs and the create:space. They’re spaces which provides nodes to creative activity. Within each node are sub-nodes which include the equipment (a 3D printer was mentioned in the article) and other tools necessary for the activity. How are these nodes being connected?<\/li>\n
  4. “Educators are still learning how students can best benefit from such spaces.” Let the experimental design begin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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