Cao Wen Robot What does maker education mean?

If that's right, it's probably a robot training institution.

Robot makers mainly learn about robotics and maker culture.

Robot maker is a comprehensive discipline that draws on the concepts and methods of robotics and maker culture. Robotics is the foundation of robot makers, and by learning robotics, students can understand and master the structure and working principles of robots, learn to use various sensors and actuators, and write control programs. This kind of learning can not only cultivate students' practical hands-on ability, but also improve their logical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Maker culture is the core concept of robot maker, which emphasizes that students should have the awareness of creativity and innovation, and realize it through their own practice. The maker culture encourages students to take the initiative to disassemble and transform objects, find problems and solve them, and cultivate their observation, thinking and practical skills. Maker culture emphasizes learning by doing, attaches importance to students' initiative and creativity, and cultivates students' ability to think independently and learn independently through continuous experimentation and exploration.

In the process of cultivating robot makers, students usually start with simple robotics projects and gradually move on to complex robotics design and programming. In this process, students need to constantly exercise and improve their skills, while also learning to work as a team and share experiences. It involves knowledge and skills in mechanical design, electronic control, programming, sensor technology, etc., and aims to cultivate students' creativity, hands-on ability and problem-solving ability.

A discipline that fosters hands-on ability and creativity

The knowledge and skills of robot makers can be applied in a wide range of fields. Robot makers have broad application prospects and can meet the needs of different fields. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and robotics, more and more jobs will be replaced by robots, and the cultivation of robot creators can cultivate students' creativity and innovation consciousness, and improve their competitiveness in the future society.

Robot Maker cultivates students' practical and hands-on skills, enabling them to better cope with real-world problems and challenges.

With the continuous development of artificial intelligence and robotics, the field of robot makers will also usher in a broader space for development. In the future, robot makers will not only be a learning content for students, but also a career development direction. Robot Maker can provide students with opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, and cultivate their entrepreneurial spirit and teamwork skills.

Robot makers can also provide professional robot R&D and innovation services for enterprises, and promote technological innovation and industrial upgrading.

Robot makers mainly learn about robotics and maker culture. This not only involves an in-depth understanding of robotics, such as the structure and working principle of the grinding wheel of the robot, the use of sensors and actuators, and the writing of control programs, but also emphasizes the core concept of maker culture, that is, to cultivate students' awareness of creativity and innovation, and encourage them to take the initiative to disassemble and transform objects, find problems and solve them.

In addition, some advanced robot works, such as motor drive, torque control, etc., need to learn more advanced skills and knowledge, such as embedded programming, complex 3D structure design, motion control, electronic circuit design, etc. These stages also require mastery of some mathematical knowledge, such as complex variable functions (Fourier transform, Rassell transform), as well as some classical control blind mask theory (automatic control principle) and modern control theory.

The Maker Education Package uses a wide range of methods, one of which is robotics education. It can be said that it is a father-son relationship.

The content of maker education and training includes robot training, but it is higher than robot training, and the requirements for teachers are particularly high!

Emphasizing the basics, maker education not only cultivates programming, electronics, and mechanical skills, but more importantly, cultivates innovation ability, logical thinking ability, and teamwork ability. It is particularly important for learning cultural courses - maker education integrates innovative education, experiential education, project learning and other ideas, which is in line with students' curiosity and creative nature. It is mainly based on the curriculum, integrating science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, technology, art and other disciplines to cultivate students' imagination, creativity and problem-solving ability.

The word maker is derived from the English word "maker", which originally refers to a person who strives to turn various ideas into reality out of interest and hobby. Maker education is also STEAM education, maker education is a combination of maker culture and education, based on students' interests, in the way of project learning, using digital tools, advocating creation, encouraging sharing, and cultivating interdisciplinary problem-solving ability, teamwork ability and innovation ability.

As early as 1994, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) set up the course "Designing and Building LEGO Robots" (MARTIN), with the aim of improving the design and creativity of engineering design students, and trying to integrate robotics education with science experiments; The MIT Lab's Kindergarten for Life project team has developed a variety of teaching tools, and through close collaboration with the famous building block toy manufacturer LEGO Inc., the project team has developed programmable LEGO toys to help children learn how to design in the digital age. At the same time, some foreign intelligent robot laboratories also have corresponding robot education and research content.

Maker education is not equal to 3D printing, nor is it equal to drones, nor is it equal to programming, nor is it equal to robots.

Makers are a kind of carrier of education. Create.

Maker: A person who has the courage to innovate and strives to turn his ideas into reality.

Maker education is to inject the spirit of maker into education: collaboration, trial and error, sharing, practice, and exploration.

Traditional education is an education that receives, takes, and makes up for shortcomings. Maker education pays more attention to caring, assistance, and long-term education. Focus on the development of personality.

Traditional education imparts (not necessarily useful) knowledge, while maker education teaches students (lifelong benefits) abilities.

Returning to the essence of education, Mr. Cai Yuanpei said: "Education is to help the educated and give them to develop their own abilities. Complete his personality. ”

Maker education is a combination of maker culture and education, based on students' interests, in the way of project learning, using digital tools, advocating creation, encouraging sharing, and cultivating interdisciplinary problem-solving ability, teamwork ability and innovation ability. This definition comes from the results of the Maker Education Committee of the Modern Education Technology Branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics in February 2016, which gathered more than 20 experts and practitioners in the maker and maker education fields. Because the day of the seminar coincided with the Lantern Festival, this definition is also known as the "Lantern Festival Definition" of maker education.

The definition of maker education seems to be a paragraph, but the process of discussion is quite tortuous. Just as "there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people", almost every maker or teacher engaged in maker education has his own definition. At the beginning, several backbone teachers and makers who did maker education adopted the concept of "harmony and difference", and they all believed that their views were basically the same.

But it turned out that different expressions can lead to some misunderstandings, so there was such a workshop. At the request of the Maker Education Committee, we make the following interpretation of this definition, in order to promote the development of maker education and form the broadest industry consensus.