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21st C education: FabLearn
Neil Gershenfeld describes this transformation as the Third Digital Revolution , meaning the interchangeability of bits and atoms to achieve personal fabrication of almost anything (contextual note, the 1st digital revolution was the Internet; the 2nd digital revolution was the smart phone). Rather than another new commodity, the idea of the Fab Lab is to put the means of production into the hands of more and more citizens. See my earlier article for a list of the 5 types of machines that are found in a Fab
Technology, Tools ... Curriculum . You might be sold on the technologies (for example, the micro:bit) and have purchased the tools you need for maker education (servos, glue guns etc.) but you haven’t got time to develop a comprehensive curriculum which makes the most of those tools.
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