This is what school computing classes should be like, according to maker space FabLab’s co-founder Tony Fish: students jumping up from excitement because their robot did as it was commanded, high-fiving each other because their code made LEDs light up, and proudly parading around draped in wearables of their own creation. That was the cheerfully noisy scene at FabLab’s Maker Space at WIRED 2015 NexGen. But due to the year-old curriculum’s focus on coding, and not things, that’s often not the case in classrooms, according to Fish.
