Maker Education in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chung-Yueh Lee, 李宗岳
• Other Authors: 王泰俐
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20622343109031482007

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 104 === Since 2005, the concepts of “Maker” is initiatively used by Dale Dougherty, the founder of the "MAKE" Magazine and Maker Media. Three years ago, the former premier of the department of executive, Mao Zhiguo, promoted 3D printing as a strategy to boost the economics of Taiwan, at that time this trend of innovation and creativity DIY gradually spread to the nation. By 2015, almost each media wanted to seize the idea of Maker culture, science and technology reports related to Maker started to race for the daily broadcasting. The invisible effect had restricted the Taiwanese to recognized maker only in 3D printing, laser cutting machine and other digital equipment to use. People ignored the true meaning of “Maker”, which emphasized on "DIY" and have the basic ability to solve living problems. In the future, how to cultivate innovative people in Taiwan will be the toughest problem, it is not enough to promote only through media, but the most important way will be the return to education system. The education of next generation is needed to be revolutionized through this wave of Maker culture. In 2015, the former minister of the department of Education ,Wu Se-hwa took a big budget-cost policy to make the teachers at school begin to push this trend. Teachers expected students will change by DIY and project-based learning, so the whole educational system began different. To observe the students who taught base on Maker education, and to see how they make a change, this research will executive in the form of documentary, which contains: parents, the industry, and schools, hope to record the whole progress of this new wave.