Do, Make, Play

Love this quote about maker culture:

One might reasonably fear that making will be reduced to another failed approach at education reform. Making can be described as “project-based learning” or “hands-on learning,” yet doing projects or working with your hands is only what making looks like, not what it is. In his book on education, To Understand Is to Invent, Jean Piaget wrote that educators should “lead the child to construct for himself the tools that will transform him from the inside—that is, in a real sense, and not just on the surface.” It is the difference between a child who is directed to perform a task and one who is self-directed to figure out what to do. That kind of transformation, that kind of personal and social change, is what making is about.

–The Maker Mindset–Dale Dougherty