âIf you give a child a set of step-by-step instructions and build something, in one way, they’ve made something. But, that’s not the spirit of the maker movement.â
As the quote above indicates, Mitch ResnickâLEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Labâhas strong feelings when it comes to educating students about science and problem-solving with maker activities. Having seen school makerspaces all over the globe, Resnick recently told EdSurge, an edtech news and community organization, that integrating making into schools can be both a positive and a negative, if done incorrectly: âThere are some wonderful instances of people doing great activities around making, and other people who misapply it, and do things in a way that’s too regimented.â
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