Makerspaces in Education accessed 9/29/17 https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/26621503902 Flipped teaching, coding, QR scanning, virtual reality, and makerspaces. What are these? Technology trends in education. Makerspaces are one trend that I have read about throughout my tech courses. So what is a makerspace? Let’s take a look at this short video. So why have a makerspace? In a world where we are creating educational zombies as Marc Teusch points out in his video, the question should be why not? These spaces create peer collaboration, critical thinking, building things. In these spaces, your product is not an end of unit project. You are walking into these spaces with a problem you would like to investigate, you brainstorm a solution, you build some type of prototype, you try it, and reflect on whether or not it worked. What happens if their plan doesn’t work? They start again. Failure is what drives students to persevere. Do you think this trend is ...