Make: Three Modes of Making: Designing Purposeful Projects to Teach Maker Skills

The Maker movement has been an excellent opportunity for people to become producers rather than just consumers, and schools are recognizing the value of offering students the tools, materials, and skills necessary to design sophisticated and meaningful projects. But teaching technical skills should not be the end goal: At its best, a Maker education teaches students to think and act in creative ways that can be applied to difficult challenges in all areas of life.

Three Modes of Making provides a framework for Maker courses in upper grades that teach students creative-process skills through three key Maker modes: Imitation, Modification, and Innovation. Educators will learn the differences between the three Maker modes, their associated skill sets, and gain concrete methods to teach, document, and assess these skills. Through this approach, teachers will enable students to apply them to different creative needs.

By focusing on how to teach skill development rather than merely how to build specific objects, Three Modes of Making enables students to improve and enhance their creative skills, and learn ways to apply them to a wide variety of challenges. This book is a road map to developing the creative problem solvers that the world needs for the future.

「Maker運動」為人們提供了成為製造者而非僅僅消費者的絕佳機會，學校也意識到提供學生設計複雜且有意義的項目所需的工具、材料和技能的價值。然而，教授技術技能不應該是最終目標：在最好的情況下，Maker教育教導學生以創造性的方式思考和行動，並將這些能力應用於生活中的各個領域中的困難挑戰。

《三種製造模式》為高年級的Maker課程提供了一個框架，通過三種關鍵的Maker模式（模仿、修改和創新）教授學生創造過程中的技能。教育工作者將學習這三種Maker模式之間的區別，它們所關聯的技能集，並獲得具體的教授、記錄和評估這些技能的方法。通過這種方法，教師將使學生能夠將這些技能應用於不同的創造需求中。

《三種製造模式》著重於如何教授技能發展，而不僅僅是如何建造特定物品，使學生能夠提高和增強他們的創造技能，並學習將這些技能應用於各種挑戰中。這本書是培養未來所需的創造性問題解決者的路線圖。