From Maker to Creative Citizens: Maker Citizens and Its Cultivation from the Perspective of Smart Education

The goal of smart education is to cultivate talents with good value orientation, high thinking quality and strong decisive ability, which provides a brand new target framework and value pursuit for maker education. Firstly, this paper starts from the connotation of makers, clarifies the logical relationship between the concepts of maker citizens and creative citizens, and builds the capability dimension and literacy structure of maker citizens. Secondly, based on the International MakEY creator citizen project, this paper analyzes the paths and strategies of the UK and Iceland to cultivate students’ creativity through maker space in detail, and illustrates the role of maker space in cultivating the digital literacy and creativity of children and adolescents. Finally, this paper, on the basis of case analysis and the development of smart education in China, proposes the realization path and some strategies to cultivate maker citizens in China, and establishes the concept and system of citizenship education for “Lifelong, All People, Whole Process, All Space, and Whole Society”, which provides theoretical basis and case references for the cultivation of Chinese makers’ citizens, and promotes the integral development of maker education and smart education.