Seymour Papert was and is still ahead of its time . This speaks for the book, unfortunately, many of his ideas are not yet arrived today in many schools. Although the technological development are becoming increasingly a more and more importance in everyday . I’m currently working in a Montesorri school here in Potsdam and… Read more »

I have been thinking about making and progressive education for a while. We started taking our children to the maker fair years ago, and we have a long history with Peninsula School http://www.peninsulaschool.org in Menlo Park, CA. My sister and I attended the school in the 70s from kindergarten to 8th grade, and one of… Read more »

Hi all, I’d like to do a couple of “office hours” with guru groups this week and next. And if an hour is too long, I think 30 min is fine too! As Paulo said today in the webinar, we are going to ramp up on this particular task – but with plenty of time… Read more »

Since I moved my first steps on the maker scene I was interested about what people think about fabLAB/maker space format and how they define it. During FAB5: The Fifth International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication in Pune, India in 2009 I made a mini doc asking people  to define a fabLAB… Read more »

I’ve been reading Make Space lately and this book has some great ideas on how to layout a design lab.  I have especially enjoyed the authors ideas on what type of furniture to put in the various spaces.  Modified Z-racks, cocktail height prototyping tables and flip-top storage/brainstorming tables have all be inspiring.  I’ve actually taken… Read more »

This essay was written last year for the Learning Creative Learning MOOC at MIT. It was originally posted to my personal blog as a response to Seymor Papert’s classic introduction to Mindstorms, Gears of My Childhood. I thought I might be appropriate to share it here. My First Makerspace Even at the age of seven,… Read more »

To be quite honest, I really had a hard time getting into the Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire.  Maybe it was my mood, maybe my brain was just full from all of my other projects but it was initially a tough read.  I felt a bit oppressed myself as I slogged through chapter 1… but… Read more »

Hi everyone, I’m glad to be joining the FabLearn team – I’ve spent some time looking through the blog posts (not all!) and the Google Drive content. I’m starting to understand a bit about what you all have been doing, and it looks great and VERY ambitious! Congratulations for getting so much started so quickly!… Read more »

In Chapter 1 of Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Freire defines his theory and identifies the oppressor and the oppressed. He writes of how in order to liberate the oppressed and to provide a meaningful educational experience, the “learner” must be actively involved in the construction of their education. Traditional pedagogies maintain this power… Read more »

i am planning for a workshop for our teachers at our school. this is one of the  pre-workshop reading. I find it short, simple and easy to look at Constructionism especially for the new comers or even for experienced ones to revisit its core. 🙂 http://learning.media.mit.edu/courses/mas713/readings/Constructionism%20-%20Falbel.pdf