For more than a decade, scientists have publicized the potential of microfluidics to revolutionize the test and analysis of substances ranging from water to DNA. Thousands of journal articles have ...

Amy McIntosh is the managing editor of EdTech: Focus on Higher Education and EdTech: Focus on K–12. Hamilton said that he uses the design cycle to get students to think about problems. For children in ...

Makerspaces in schools are giving educators new options to teach students core coding concepts. Learn why makerspaces could be right for your classroom. Eli has been eagerly pursuing a journalistic ...

In the last few years, 3D printers, laser cutters, and a variety of powerful manufacturing tools have made their way into small workshops and makerspaces. Tools and technologies that were formerly ...

Learn how three increasingly important components of a 21st-century education--STEM, STEAM, and makerspaces--are helping students get a leg up on global competition By now, we’ve all heard about STEM, ...

Makerspaces in schools are a place where the normal rules of classroom learning are tossed aside in favor of just a couple — have fun, and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. As schools continue to ...

It’s easy enough to decide to focus more on a specific topic or skill, such as STEM, in the classroom, but it’s sometimes more difficult to find tools and resources to support that skill. Teachers ...

Rather than seeing the disruptive and subversive maker culture as a challenge to its authority, the Chinese government has invested heavily in makerspaces, reconstructing them into “MISs” (Hao and ...

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Makerspaces – the commercial venues where creative people gather to design and make their products – are under pressure to transform their business models or face closing shop. A growing number of ...