Category: Making
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Learning from libraries
There’s a great article in the New York Times today about public libraries retooling as “stuff-braries,” places to learn the guitar, borrow some snow shoes, or connect to a 3D printer. As per usual with such articles, I found it hard to not read the whole thing by substituting “libraries” with “churches” and considering the implications. Consider…
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Sunday school students should be making things
The pro position of today’s Key Resources Point/Counterpoint gets to the core of my concerns about traditional Sunday school models: My own education prioritized hands-on, project-based, interdisciplinary, student-empowered learning. I wrote jingles and parodies as a participant in Odyssey of the Mind and Destination Imagination, months-long creative problem-solving competitions. I built towers and trebuchets…
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Tech fluency and Christian formation
Writing for the e-Formation blog, Lisa Brown explains how she and Kyle got inspired by the maker movement at Context 2015 in Pittsburgh: As an incredible example of the intersection of humanities and science, we learned about one of the “Arts & Bots” projects in which students created motorized shoebox dioramas based on poetry. In choosing…
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I have a hunch: The church and the maker movement
I have a hunch. The maker movement is changing the way we think about education, formation, creativity, job training, and so much more. I think the church is going to learn a lot from this movement. I think the church is a natural participant and partner. “The world is a better place as a participatory sport,”…