Bringing the Maker Movement into EdTech
Pi-top is a start-up making affordable, cool-looking computers for schools, which kids can build themselves while learning coding, electronics, and a whole lot more.
In my latest article for IDG Connect I explore how creative hacking and the Maker Movement have gained momentum in recent years as more and more people recognize there’s a skills crisis that has to be urgently tackled if we’re to not only cope, but thrive, in the digital economy.
The concept of Creative Hacking is something that a lot of technology startups have been exploring in order to address the increasingly pressing issue of the widening digital skills gap. This essentially refers to the problem that not enough children are learning the skills they need at school to function in — and contribute to — the digital economy.
This was, in fact, one of the hot topics of debate at the recent Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai, where an initiative was launched to standardize that concept of “Digital Intelligence Quotient” and introduce it into the broader international curriculum.
