#GuildChat for 06/26/15: What the Maker Movement Means For Learning

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, June 26th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is What The Maker Movement Means for Learning.

“More than mere consumers of technology, we are makers, adapting technology to our needs and integrating it into our lives. Some of us are born makers and others, like me, become makers almost without realizing it.” – Dale Dougherty, technology writer for Make Magazine

These, the first lines of Dale Dougherty’s first column, launched what we know today as the Maker Movement, a movement driven by a sense of curiosity, adventure, and intellectual engagement. As the movement enters it’s 10th year we look to discuss what it has meant for learning. The focus has shifted from merely consuming content to creating it and now our physical spaces and virtual spaces collide to form new knowledge born from the process of D.I.Y inventiveness.

What learning happens within and after the act of making? How do we stimulate our own creativity and encourage it in others to solve problems or bring new value?  We’ll explore these and other questions in this next #GuildChat.

This weeks questions:

Q1. How would you define a Maker? #GuildChat

Q2. What are some of the new creations you have made to augment learning, your own or others? #GuildChat

Q3. What have you learned through the process of making? #GuildChat

Q4. What are the characteristics of a Maker? #GuildChat

Q5. What triggers your desire to Make something new? #GuildChat

Q6. What holds people back from being creative? #GuildChat

Q7. How can we encourage others to Make more than simply consume? #GuildChat

Chat Transcript

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