Maker Faire

Enabling Schools of the Future

Robert Schwartz | Posted 05.17.2012

Robert Schwartz

We need to stop pandering to our "digital native" students and provide structures and platforms that better enable their success.

What Barack Obama Could Learn From Maker Faire

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 11.19.2011

Steve Rosenbaum

I've been reading all the various polls and news reports. Everyone seems to agree that 'it's the economy stupid' to borrow a phrase, but I can't help ...

Why Shop Class Is Still Relevant

Joe Astroth | Posted 07.19.2011

Joe Astroth

The workforce is composed of all kinds of learners performing all kinds of tasks; the one room in any school building that can captivate all of them just might be the one with the lathe.

FLUID SCULPTURE: Less Mess Than A Meat Dress

Posted 05.25.2011

Why We Think It's Cool: The winner of the "Captured" category in this month's first annual Vimeo Festival somehow turns a demonstration of a dress pro...

Education: Reform or Transformation? A Report from the 2010 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Ellen Galinsky

The United States was once first in the world in college graduation rates, we are now 14th. Many well-known speakers from very diverse fields at see the need for educational change as a societal, economic and moral imperative