The document criticizes traditional education for its reliance on lecturing, standardized content and tests, and lack of real-world application. It argues that learning is better when it is open, situated in real problems, and done through collaboration like in hackerspaces. The document advocates hacking or redesigning schooling to focus on learning skills needed for the 21st century by creating solutions to problems through doing, understanding issues, and solving them - similar to how learning happens informally at Technarium, a community space in Lithuania that brings people together around hands-on projects in areas like electronics, biochemistry, and more. The goal is to turn all schools into places that facilitate the type of peer-based, experiential learning that
6. Not that content we are *taught* at
school doesn’t matter, but … it’s HOW we
*learn* it
7. THERE IS AN ANSWER! Or - many
• Open
Schooling
Learning together
Learning situated...
8. THERE IS AN ANSWER! Or - many
• Hack Schooling / Unschooling
(Homeschooling only better!)
Hackschooling makes me happy | Logan LaPlante - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY
Living-not learning to live
9. THERE IS AN ANSWER! Or - many
• Hackerspaces!
Learning by doing, problem
solving, constructing
knowledge
11. ...not just coding: any type of
hacking goes
CREATING A DIY
SOLUTION IN YOUR
HOME
CONSTRUCTING A NEW
TYPE OF TOOL FOR
YOUR
SCHOOLWORK/WORK-
WORK
Have a
problem
Understand
it
Solve it
12. At Technarium we hack technology –
one of most hackable things in
today’s world
...and we’re learning as a community
as a result
At Technarium we hack technology –
one of most hackable things in
today’s world
But what is
Technarium?
22. Vilnius Hack and Tell events, electronics Mondays, workshops,
citizen science activities, Cryptoparties, workshops for refugees,
various meetups, etc.
(http://meetup.com/Technarium)
25. Open source hardware movement of the early 21st
century:
•We ought to build stuff that is the hardware equivalent of Linux or
Apache.
• An open source water kettle? Open source switched-mode power
supply? Variable frequency drive?
https://github.com/Miceuz/triac-bloc
26. INFORMAL LEARNING AT TECHNARIUM: MASTER
THESIS Informal learning:
•Happens everywhere
•Happens as a side effect
27. TECHNARIUM AS A COMMUNITY OF
PRACTICE • Shared space & tools
• Works as a community !
• Sharing & peer-support
• Peer-evaluation
• Unique jargon
We make things: from code to ceramics, from electronics to chemistry, from metalwork to 3D printing
[This conference is for people who build the infrastructure of the world. We've built a bridge as well.]
> 5 humans
That's part of the premises. Before people and their stuff moved in, obviously.
-- why this? partly because we're a bunch of diverse people interested in diverse stuff
-- but also likely because we're a post-Soviet country, where making/fixing/hacking stuff has been a fixture of the society – the potential barrier between having an idea and realising one can do it is lower
To make it clear, we are here not to praise the Soviet system. The system sucked in ways too numerous to count. However, one point is clear - once there was a modern society which had the virtues of DIY and hacking woven deep into its fabric.
And some of that trickled down to the next generation.
So we have that in Vilnius: smart, educated, curious people who are not afraid to do things themselves. However, what we sorely lack here in Lithuania are the communities of technical people -- there are a lot of tinkerers, but they don't meet, don't exchange knowledge, are isolated from the wider world and that leads to stagnation
-- Also -- compliance with crappy, temporary, the cheapest solutions, lack of striving for excellence, lack of empowerment
...as do many people here: No Trolls Allowed hackercamp, GG, Vilnius Girls Code, even this conference
How do we do that? We try to educate and empower the public.
is to ka kalbejom toks kad zmones ypac menininkai dizaineriai etc mato ar isivaizduoja forma, bet nevelnio nesuvokia kaip ir kokiom technologijom ja materealizuot. ir tarkim jei nubraico cade, ir jam tai isdrozia stakles po dideliu gaubtu, tai velgi lieka totaliu nesuvoktu klouzdsursu kur ten ivyko kazkokia magija. (cia pire to dabar plintancio pasakymo this is where the magic happens, o musu tikslas labiausiai kogero rodyt kad no magic, just you and a hammer of your preferred size)
We share what we do.
Fast-forward to the open source hardware movement of early XXI century.
I'm not sure if it's only me, but I have a feeling that the majority of the open source hardware we have now is electronics targeted to the electronics hobbyists. It's mainly recreational. It's as if it exists just because of itself. Does the Open Hardware we build possess the power to change the world?