OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF SECONDARY VOCATIONAL MAKER EDUCATION UNDER THE BACKGROUND OF NEW GENERATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

Abstract. Maker education integrates innovative spirit with education and teaching. Vocational education shoulders the responsibility of training talents for all kinds of occupations. This study aims to explore the feasibility and necessity of developing maker education in secondary vocational schools. By using literature research method, this paper searched and visualized the literature with “maker education” as the key word in CNKI database, and analyzed the development status of maker education in China. The results show that there are relatively few research results on the application and practice of maker education mode, especially in the field of secondary vocational education. On the basis of previous studies, combined with the current situation of secondary vocational, this paper analyzes that secondary vocational maker education has many opportunities in policy and technology, but also faces challenges such as the concept needs to be improved, the curriculum system is not perfect, the teachers are weak, and maker space needs to be improved. Finally, this study confirms that the deep integration of maker education and secondary vocational education is an inevitable trend, and provides insights to promote the development of secondary vocational maker education.