What Counts as Learning While Making?

Campus Technology: If I had to choose one takeaway from SXSWedu last month in Austin, it would be the impact of the maker movement on education. The "making" theme permeated nearly every aspect of the conference, from the keynotes and sessions to hands-on exhibits — even a press event where education industry reporters constructed ducks out of Legos alongside Dan Rather. (Rather was at SXSWedu with his grandson, Martin Rather, to present the inaugural Rather Prize, awarded to a student, teacher or administrator with the best idea to improve education in the state of Texas — and it should come as no surprise that making and experiential learning factored into many of the finalists' proposals.)

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