The document criticizes traditional education for its reliance on lecturing, standardized content and tests, and lack of real-world application. It argues that learning is better when it is open, situated in real problems, and done through collaboration like in hackerspaces. The document advocates hacking or redesigning schooling to focus on learning skills needed for the 21st century by creating solutions to problems through doing, understanding issues, and solving them - similar to how learning happens informally at Technarium, a community space in Lithuania that brings people together around hands-on projects in areas like electronics, biochemistry, and more. The goal is to turn all schools into places that facilitate the type of peer-based, experiential learning that

1. Traditional education sucks. Let’s
hack it.
EGLE MARIJA RAMANAUSKAITE, SIMONA BEKERAITE
BIZZZ#254, 2016-08-20

2. Why is traditional education failing
learners?

3. Lecturing doesn’t work...
...nor does standardized content
or tests

4. Teachers not always smarter than
students…

5. Lack of integration + No connection
of learned things to real world

6. Not that content we are *taught* at
school doesn’t matter, but … it’s HOW we
*learn* it

7. THERE IS AN ANSWER! Or - many
• Open
Schooling
Learning together
Learning situated...

8. THERE IS AN ANSWER! Or - many
• Hack Schooling / Unschooling
(Homeschooling only better!)
Hackschooling makes me happy | Logan LaPlante - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY
Living-not learning to live

9. THERE IS AN ANSWER! Or - many
• Hackerspaces!
Learning by doing, problem
solving, constructing
knowledge

10. Learning skills actually needed in
21st
century
FUTURE
CREATORS
CREATORS OF
THE FUTURE

11. ...not just coding: any type of
hacking goes
 CREATING A DIY
SOLUTION IN YOUR
HOME
 CONSTRUCTING A NEW
TYPE OF TOOL FOR
YOUR
SCHOOLWORK/WORK-
WORK
 Have a
problem
 Understand
it
 Solve it

12. At Technarium we hack technology –
one of most hackable things in
today’s world
...and we’re learning as a community
as a result
At Technarium we hack technology –
one of most hackable things in
today’s world
But what is
Technarium?

15. Basement, < 5 humans

16. 1000 sq. m. space at a former industrial building

19. Electronics and biochemistry labs, ceramics studio, UAV/CNC construction corner,
brewery, sewing area, 3D printing corner

20. Lithuania: many creative,
intelligent, DIY-inclined
people
lack of collaboration:
stagnation
complacency: lack of
striving for excellence

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We try to change that.

22. Vilnius Hack and Tell events, electronics Mondays, workshops,
citizen science activities, Cryptoparties, workshops for refugees,
various meetups, etc.
(http://meetup.com/Technarium)

23. Engineering solutions/consulting for people who
need them: artists, designers

24. z

25. Open source hardware movement of the early 21st
century:
•We ought to build stuff that is the hardware equivalent of Linux or
Apache.
• An open source water kettle? Open source switched-mode power
supply? Variable frequency drive?
https://github.com/Miceuz/triac-bloc

26. INFORMAL LEARNING AT TECHNARIUM: MASTER
THESIS Informal learning:
•Happens everywhere
•Happens as a side effect

27. TECHNARIUM AS A COMMUNITY OF
PRACTICE • Shared space & tools
• Works as a community !
• Sharing & peer-support
• Peer-evaluation
• Unique jargon

28. LEARNING *HAPPENS* IN UNEXPECTED
PLACES

29. NOW... TO TURN ALL SCHOOLS INTO
HACKERSPACES 

30. @technarium
@seplute | @astrolitterbox
http://blog.technariumas.lt