What is the difference and connection between STEAM education and maker education?

From the perspective of teaching methods, maker education and STEAM education are of great benefit to stimulate students' creative potential and cultivate students' innovative ability. First of all, maker education pays attention to the cultivation of students' practical ability, emphasizes learning by doing and creating middle schools, and carries out various maker activities by building a maker space, so that every child can become a small maker with strong practical ability. Compared with traditional knowledge-based education, maker education is a kind of ability-oriented and application-oriented education, which can build a platform for students' imagination and creativity.

STEAM education is an educational concept that advocates interdisciplinary knowledge integration. As we all know, innovation is a highly complex system engineering, which often requires the comprehensive application of knowledge from various disciplines. Compared with traditional teaching methods, STEAM education is based on practical problems in real life. Through project-based learning, students can use the knowledge of various disciplines to solve problems in the process of cooperative inquiry, thus cultivating students' critical thinking and comprehensive knowledge literacy.

Cultivating students' innovative consciousness is the basic requirement of quality education in the new period. Maker education and STEAM education are two innovative ways to realize tailor-made education for students on the basis of original education.