1. Learning In and From Fab Labs
Amon Millner CBA, Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA August 12, 2005

2. Enhancing “Constructionist” Learning
now

3. Early Computers
Early fabrication tools
Initially big, expensive machines not accessible to less-technical people
80’s & 90’s
Visionaries helped find many educational uses for personal computers
2000’s
Fab Labs are exploring educational uses of digital fabrication tools

4. What Can I Learn by Doing This?

5. Fab Tools + a Supportive Design Environment has Lead to Learning Through:
artistic expression
interaction design
gaining confidence and having fun
robotics
… and much more

6. Support for Fab Lab Learning: People, Time, Research & Development

7. Thanks for listening! I look forward to seeing you at the Norway Fab Lab