Makerspace Projects-Year One
What is Making?
"Making is an iterative process of tinkering and problem solving that draws on a DIY mindset. Making is collaborative and allows for self-expression through the creation of a personally meaningful artifact that is shared with a larger community."
- UTeach Maker Advisory Group, 2016
Making promotes creativity and engages students in problems of their own invention. Making helps students develop identities as designers, creators, and tinkerers. Through Making, students gain access to sophisticated tools for building and thinking critically.
"There are two things that make us human. We use tools, and we tell stories" (Adam Savage)
https://maker.uteach.utexas.edu/making
The key take-away for teachers is that 'making' is not a particular space, shop configuration, or use of a particular set of tools- it is an attitude and a process. Key is iteration, getting feedback, collaboration, and self-directed learning.
"Making is an iterative process of tinkering and problem solving that draws on a DIY mindset. Making is collaborative and allows for self-expression through the creation of a personally meaningful artifact that is shared with a larger community."
- UTeach Maker Advisory Group, 2016
Making promotes creativity and engages students in problems of their own invention. Making helps students develop identities as designers, creators, and tinkerers. Through Making, students gain access to sophisticated tools for building and thinking critically.
"There are two things that make us human. We use tools, and we tell stories" (Adam Savage)
https://maker.uteach.utexas.edu/making
The key take-away for teachers is that 'making' is not a particular space, shop configuration, or use of a particular set of tools- it is an attitude and a process. Key is iteration, getting feedback, collaboration, and self-directed learning.
Makerspaces in Schools
Maker Projects
- MIT Edgerton Center: Learning Supported by Making Project
- MIT Edgerton Center Makerspace
- STEAM Lab at Boston Arts Academy -Boston
- South End Technology Center
- Meadowbrook School Eureka Lab
- Bourne Idea Lab
- Brimmer and May STEAM program
- Acera School Winchester
- Crane Country Day School
- NuVu Studio Cambridge
- Watertown High School
- Henry Ford Learning Institute
- Marymount School NYC
- Other Makerspaces
Maker Projects
Making in School Slideshows:
Diane Brancazio- MIT Edgerton Center-Learning Supported by Making:
Alisha Panjwani- Acera School:
Link to Presentation
Link to Presentation