Hackerspace in a Box

Brief:

“Inspired by the global hackerspace movement, hackerspace-in-a-box is a classroom experiment exploring the horizons of emerging technologies, science, media, art, emotional/social intelligence, and PLAY through hackerspace facilitated workshops.”

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What are 21st Century Skills?

After some talking we realized that, with regards to this question, we are really trying to accomplish the same thing with our ventures, only we’re all using different tools to do it. As we do at Sparkling Science, Jane and her team at sugru also believes that humans are naturally creative but that most of us loose this capacity as we grow up and become educated. This is a paradox since creative thinking is a skill society increasingly value. I passionately believe that the problem is not WHAT we learn in school but HOW we learn it. In most cases when we learn things it is a process of convergent thinking, meaning we are presented with multiple alternatives that eventually only lead to one answer. Take for example a classical mathematical problem we are faced with in first grade: 4+3 = ? Here we are presented with several conditions that will all add up to ONE answer. We learn math this way but we unlearn the skill of divergent thinking, a prerequisite for creativity and the ability to come up with multiple solutions to one problem. Something that kindergarten kids by the way are considered to be geniuses at…..