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Harnessing the Maker Spirit: Dale Dougherty’s New Book, ‘Free to Make’

Edsurge

But it nonetheless embodies what Dale Dougherty, the “father” of the movement, sees as literally the “moral imperative” of the maker movement: “to use our creative freedom to make the future better, to be hands-on in making change, and to get everyone participating fully in that future.”.

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The History of the Future of Learning Objects and Intelligent Machines

Hack Education

The “maker movement.” One of the earliest flight simulators – and yes, this predates the Microsoft software program by over fifty years, but postdates the Wright Brothers by only about twenty – was developed by Edwin Link. Collaboration. Personalization. Problem-solving. Self-directed learning.