A Quick Intro To Maker Culture & Resources

The maker movement is a social movement with an artisan spirit.

Maker culture emphasizes learning-through-doing (active learning) in a social environment. Maker culture emphasizes informal, networked, peer-led, and shared learning motivated by fun and self-fulfilment.[4] Maker culture encourages novel applications of technologies, and the exploration of intersections between traditionally separate domains and ways of working including metal-working, calligraphy, filmmaking, and computer programming. Community interaction and knowledge sharing are often mediated through networked technologies, with websites and social media tools forming the basis of knowledge repositories and a central channel for information sharing and exchange of ideas, and focused through social meetings in shared spaces such as hackspaces. Maker culture has attracted the interest of educators concerned about students’ disengagement from STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) informal educational settings. Maker culture is seen as having the potential to contribute to a more participatory approach and create new pathways into topics that will make them more alive and relevant to learners.

-Wikipedia

 

Website Resources:


https://www.instructables.com/
https://www.hackster.io/
https://hackaday.com/
https://www.arduino.cc/
https://learn.adafruit.com/
https://learn.sparkfun.com/
https://www.geekfactory.mx/
http://breakerslab.org
https://www.howstuffworks.com/
https://makezine.com/