What is maker education?

Maker education is an educational behavior to cultivate students' knowledge, vision and ability needed for innovation and entrepreneurship, which is mainly manifested in activities, courses and environment.

The essence of maker education is to cultivate students' comprehensive ability of asking questions, researching problems, solving problems and making by hands in the process of helping students to carry out maker activities, and initially realize the integration of scientific research, technical production and artistic creation.

It can cultivate students' initiative exploration spirit, critical thinking ability, independent innovation ability, cooperative research ability, language expression ability and artistic creation ability. Maker education is a comprehensive, extensive and innovative education method in primary and secondary education at present.

There is no doubt that the Maker Movement will change our study at school. It can reduce the damage caused by standardized teaching and testing to students' personalized development, and encourage creativity and innovation in a new way-using new digital technology to design, make, share and learn across time and space.

In the United States, from policy to practice, maker culture has begun to gain a foothold in the education sector.

The White House began to embrace the maker movement because President Obama proposed to innovate education and improve students' STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) learning level. In his campaign speech in 2009, Obama said, "I hope all of us will think about innovative ways to motivate young people to pursue science and engineering. Whether it is a science festival, a robot competition or an exposition, young people are encouraged to create, build and invent-to be the founders of things.