Comments on: Essay of the Day: The University as a Hackerspace https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-the-university-as-a-hackerspace/2014/10/06 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Ben Lloyd https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/essay-of-the-day-the-university-as-a-hackerspace/2014/10/06/comment-page-1#comment-916012 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:09:43 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=42161#comment-916012 From the moment I first learned about hackerspaces and makerspaces I thought it made perfect sense to combine them with educational models. What better way to learn than to build and modify tools that have real-world applicability and solve our society’s problems? I think this is something that could be applied to all age groups, child through adult, and I think it is a method of learning that is innate to us from a very young age. A while back, I saw a video (can’t find it now, sorry) where a professor at Stanford’s D-School said he felt he was teaching rudimentary skills to graduate students because our current educational system systematically removes the collaborate maker mentality.

What you have proposed in this article is, essentially, my life dream.

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