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MakerCulture: Edupunks of the world unite!

MakerCulture: Edupunks of the world unite!

One night in 2008 at a Brooklyn bar, a drunk Jim Groom coined a term that has changed the way the world looks at education.

The word is EduPunk and it sums up the need for educational reform -- reform that, to some extent, has already begun.

Ordinary people are taking their education into their own hands. Using Web 2.0 tools they have a world of knowledge. And classrooms, lectures, and curriculums are changing, dramatically.

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Maker Culture

Episode Ten - EduPunks

March 19, 2010
| Classrooms are becoming more reliant on technology and ordinary people are starting to take education into their own hands.

19:02 minutes (17.42 MB)
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