Maker Movement
The Maker Movement describes makers’ activities and mind-sets organized around nine key ideas: make, share, give, learn, "tool up" (i.e., secure access to necessary tools), play, participate, support, and change (Hatch, 2014).
Maker Movement Overview
The Maker movement refers broadly to the growing number of people who are engaged in the creative production of artifacts in their daily lives who blend physical and digital forums to share their processes and products with others. (Sheridan, 2014). This movement also describes makers’ activities and mind-sets organized around nine key ideas: make, share, give, learn, tool up (i.e., secure access to necessary tools), play, participate, support, and change (Hatch, 2014).
Tinkering is an important concept in learning and making. Tinkering is about a hands-on experience in which learning from failures and experimentation supports construction and discovery of knowledge about the world. Tinkering is the process of a playful approach to backward mapping, optimization, and implementation analysis (Weimer, 1993).