Wood Shop Enters the Age of High-Tech
The director of Rutgers University’s maker space simplifies it well. “U.S. schools are very good at finding the brain-smart people…They are also very good at finding the best athletes…But they are not so good at finding and nurturing people, who think with their fingers. The next Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are more likely to emerge from a maker space than a garage.”
The article focuses more on colleges but independent schools have jumped into design thinking (defined here and here). Gould Academy has built their IDEAS Center incorporated into their student center! Technology is not limited to high schools, as seen at the Eureka Lab at The Meadowbrook School, Pre-K through 8.