- Aug 2023
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Four billion people are now connected to the same infrastructure, the internet, that we the science and technology community put in place just decades ago. This is creating the conditions for an explosion of open creativity and innovation never seen before. A huge wave of labs of all kinds (living labs, fablabs, social labs, edulabs, innovation spaces, even policy labs) is emerging as the new kind of groups and communities of the digital era. We are moving from the net to the lab. On the 2030 horizon, many of these labs will gather and agree in generating the first universal innovation ecosystems in regions and countries.
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- Four billion people are now connected to the same infrastructure, the internet, that we the science and technology community put in place just decades ago.
- This is creating the conditions for an explosion of open creativity and innovation never seen before.
- A huge wave of labs of all kinds,
- living labs,
- fablabs,
- social labs,
- edulabs,
- innovation spaces and
- policy labs
- citizen labs
- is emerging as the new kind of groups and communities of the digital era.
- We are moving from the net to the lab.
- On the 2030 horizon, many of these labs will gather and agree in generating the first universal innovation ecosystems in regions and countries.
- https://www.ecsite.eu/activities-and-services/news-and-publications/digital-spokes/issue-45
- author: Artur Serra
- deputy director of I2CQT Foundation
- research director, Citilab, Catalonia, Spain
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- Aug 2015
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www.edudemic.com www.edudemic.com
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Hands on
This might be the most explicit link to constructivism and constructionism. Not only is it about “learn by doing”, but it’s about concrete action in the physical world. Can’t help but find it limiting and restrictive to mention “3D Printing” as the main component. After all, FabLabs got started without 3D printers and the Maker movement has a lot of stuff which has little to do with 3D Printing. But it’s hard to argue that 3D Printing haven’t attracted attention, in the past couple of years. Sexier than laser etching? As Makers often point out, there’s a lot in the movement which is really very similar to what was happening in shop class. Though the trend may sound new, it’s partly based on nostalgia. A neat aspect, though, is that much of it can happen through learners’ projects cutting across class boundaries. Sure, we’ve known about project-based learning for a while. You do a project for a class or a series of classes. But how about a personal pathway (cf. “individualism”, above) through which learners add learning experiences around a central project? Learning Circles can make that into something really neat.
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