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The Library Voice: Is There A Place For Music In Our Makerspaces? Shannon Miller @ShannonMMiller

The Library Voice: Is There A Place For Music In Our Makerspaces? Shannon Miller @ShannonMMiller | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
I spend a lot of time thinking about Makerspaces.  

These engaging spaces that bring creativity, tinkering, and exploration to our communities make me push the possibilities and potential of what these spaces and experiences can bring to our young people.  

For me it is fun to think about all of the different elements we can add to our Makerspaces.  

There can be duck tape, 3D printers, art supplies, recycled goods, old computer parts, wood, Makey Makey kits, Sphero’s, knitting needles and yarn, LEGO’s, playdough, wood, hot glue guns, fabric, paper, wire, and the list goes on and on.  

Now think about this.  

Ask yourself….
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Makerspaces & PBL...Perfect Together - Laura Fleming @LFlemingEDU

Makerspaces & PBL...Perfect Together - Laura Fleming @LFlemingEDU | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Makerspaces, PBL, Genius Hour, etc…not enough time, feel like one needs to be chosen to do, but which one?
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Pairing makerspaces and Project Based Learning (PBL) together for a powerful learning experience. 
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3 Myths About Libraries, Makerspaces And Books - @DianaLRendina

3 Myths About Libraries, Makerspaces And Books - @DianaLRendina | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Even though they’ve been around since 2013, school library makerspaces still have a lot of misunderstandings surrounding them.  This confusion can come from administrators, teachers, students and the librarians themselves. Unfortunately, believing these myths can often cause decisions to be made about libraries that are detrimental to the learning process.  Today, I’m here to try to clear up a few of these myths.
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9 ways schools can create better makerspaces - eSchool News

9 ways schools can create better makerspaces - eSchool News | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Makerspaces and maker culture have quickly become a favorite of STEAM advocates, and new research shows that makerspaces can be highly effective at helping elementary students develop skills such as critical thinking, design thinking, and problem solving.

Research from Macquarie University in Australia demonstrates how, with proper training and professional development, teachers can harness makerspaces and improve teaching and learning outcomes.
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Makerspaces A to Z: Combinatory - Laura Fleming @lflemingEDU

Makerspaces A to Z: Combinatory - Laura Fleming @lflemingEDU | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
I recently launched a new blog series, Makerspaces A to Z.  You can read all about the letter A here and B here. Thank you to all those who shared their thoughts about this post to the #MakerspacesAtoZ hashtag.  Thank you also to those who shared their thoughts about letter C words there, as well.  SO many wonderful possbilities for the Letter C!

Letter C for me, represents Combinatory.
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Making Makerspaces Work for All Students - Edutopia 

Making Makerspaces Work for All Students - Edutopia  | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Makerspaces are exciting playground spaces in schools where educators can foster creativity, innovation, and design skills. Often these spaces are filled with high-tech gadgets for 3D printing, robotics, and circuitry experimentation.

While there’s infinite potential in these spaces, educators must design for inclusion of all students, including those with sensory and motor disAbilities, in the physical spaces and the learning activities within. (In this article we use the term disAbilities, with a purposeful capitalization of the A to keep our focus on the abilities of students and to mirror the language we used in a pilot college course we developed.)
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Curious about classroom Makerspaces? Here's how to get started.

Curious about classroom Makerspaces? Here's how to get started. | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

"Makerspace is a rapidly growing trend in schools across the country, but to be honest, I’ve never implemented one myself, and I can’t quite picture the logistics of orchestrating a Makerspace. How do kids know what to do? How can you find out what they’re learning? How do you make time for that with all the other tasks crammed into the school day? And how do you keep the Makerspace from turning into a chaotic mess?

I wanted to get answers to these questions from teachers who have extensive Makerspace experience, and not just at the secondary level. So, I invited Cheryl Nelson and Wendy Goldfein of Get Caught Engineering to share how they’ve managed Makerspaces in their own classrooms and helped other elementary and middle school teachers get started, too. Thank you, Cheryl and Wendy, for sharing your experiences below!"

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Integrating Makerspaces Throughout the Curriculum - STEAM Universe

Integrating Makerspaces Throughout the Curriculum - STEAM Universe | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
As makerspaces start to pop up in schools across the country, some educators, particularly those teaching non-STEM subjects, may be wondering what exactly they're supposed to do with them. Policymakers and administrators, meanwhile, want to make sure the spaces and resources are well utilized and are providing as much educational bang for the buck as possible. Luckily, integrating makerspaces throughout the curriculum is fairly easy with the right frame of mind.
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The Seven Myths Keeping Teachers from Designing Makerspaces - John Spencer @spencerideas

The Seven Myths Keeping Teachers from Designing Makerspaces - John Spencer @spencerideas | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
I first heard of makerspaces over a decade ago. It was a part of the do-it-yourself culture that I found intriguing. I visited a few places where people were doing high-tech fabrication and I wondered if I could somehow tie that into our economics unit where students were developing products.

But I got frustrated.

I had a vision for a really cool classroom makerspace but I simply couldn’t pull it off. There were too many moving pieces that I couldn’t figure out. Besides, I didn’t have the money or the resources and I didn’t know enough about grant writing to make it happen. I also didn’t have all of the skills to teach students about high-tech prototyping. So, I kept it in a private dream space where I wouldn’t have to do the real work of turning it into a reality.

But then something happened.
Norton Gusky's curator insight, September 10, 2018 9:38 AM
Good points that all educators need to understand to incorporate making, tinkering, creating into the learning process.
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Making Culture Report - Drexel University 

Making Culture Report - Drexel University  | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

"Making Culture is the product of a year-long investigation visiting 30 K-12 education makerspaces across 12 metropolitan regions map conducted through in-depth interviews with students, instructors, and leadership alongside observation and study of each space and its programs.

Among the ExCITe Center's recommendations made as a result of the report are:

*The culture of a makerspace has a direct impact on student learning. Rather than choosing equipment or specific projects, designers of new makerspaces should first consider the kind of learning culture they seek to create for their students.

 

*Makerspace participation can positively impact a broad range of students, including English Language Learners. But school leaders must be mindful to recruit inclusively, for both for instructors and students.

 

*Within school makerspaces, hosting unstructured open hours (outside of class time) encourages greater exploration, positive risk-taking, and collaboration for a wider range of students.

 

*Students frequently use skills learned in makerspaces to improve other aspects of the school and local community, such as student government activities, classroom maintenance, and sports facilities.  

The full report includes specific recommendations for those considering or planning an education makerspace and how to create a supportive culture from the outset."

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Laura Fleming: Don’t Let Makerspaces Be A Passing Trend - School Library Journal

Laura Fleming: Don’t Let Makerspaces Be A Passing Trend - School Library Journal | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
In 21 years in education, I have seen many trends come and go. I am on a mission to keep makerspaces from being added to that list. That’s at the core of everything I do now. Makerspaces are an educational philosophy, foundationally solid, and we can’t allow them to be cast aside by cynics who might suggest they were just a fun fad that has run its course. We must work to secure the future of makerspaces. Their fundamental purpose is too important, the impact on students too significant.

A true makerspace offers student-driven opportunity for open-ended exploration for everyone. Makerspaces are a mind-set, a culture. It’s about the pedagogy. A great makerspace has seven key attributes: It is personalized, deep (allowing deeper learning), empowering, equitable, differentiated, intentional, and inspiring. If you have all of that, you can call your space a makerspace—maybe even a great makerspace.

So what’s next? What is the key to the future of makerspaces? Sustainability. That requires proper planning. I am not just talking about the initial planning that is vital to creating the right makerspace for your school. This planning is for the future, and it requires looking back.
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Laura Fleming @LFlemingEdu : Don’t Let #Makerspaces Be A Passing Trend

Laura Fleming @LFlemingEdu : Don’t Let #Makerspaces Be A Passing Trend | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
In 21 years in education, I have seen many trends come and go. I am on a mission to keep makerspaces from being added to that list. That’s at the core of everything I do now. Makerspaces are an educational philosophy, foundationally solid, and we can’t allow them to be cast aside by cynics who might suggest they were just a fun fad that has run its course. We must work to secure the future of makerspaces. Their fundamental purpose is too important, the impact on students too significant.

A true makerspace offers student-driven opportunity for open-ended exploration for everyone. Makerspaces are a mind-set, a culture. It’s about the pedagogy. A great makerspace has seven key attributes: It is personalized, deep (allowing deeper learning), empowering, equitable, differentiated, intentional, and inspiring. If you have all of that, you can call your space a makerspace—maybe even a great makerspace.

So what’s next? What is the key to the future of makerspaces? Sustainability. That requires proper planning. I am not just talking about the initial planning that is vital to creating the right makerspace for your school. This planning is for the future, and it requires looking back.
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200+ Arduino Projects List For Final Year Students | #Coding #Maker #MakerED #MakerSpaces 

200+ Arduino Projects List For Final Year Students | #Coding #Maker #MakerED #MakerSpaces  | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

Best list of arduino project ideas along with sources we have published here. It includes arduino based battery charger, arduino based thermostat and etc..



Via Gust MEES, María Dolores Díaz Noguera
Gust MEES's curator insight, February 11, 2018 11:54 AM
Best list of arduino project ideas along with sources we have published here. It includes arduino based battery charger, arduino based thermostat and etc..

 

GREAT place to find nearly everything and well documented...

 

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

 

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=ARDUINO

 

Beatrice J. P. Vasconcelos's curator insight, February 12, 2018 12:42 PM
Achei interessante apesar de não ser minha área...IoT tai né gente...
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Makerspaces A to Z: Impactful - Worlds of Learning @LFlemingEDU 

Makerspaces A to Z: Impactful - Worlds of Learning @LFlemingEDU  | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Makerspaces that are impactful are not a new idea, in fact, I have written before about this Maker Care program, created by Islip, NY Library Media Specialist, Gina Seymour.  Over the past year, I also have discovered the work of Steve Sostak and Aaron Moniz, of Inspire Citizens who through their Empathy to Impact approach, help infuse the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, global competence frameworks, and media literacy into project-based inquiry, design thinking, curricular standards, language objectives, and 21st-century learning. With their work in mind, I launched a makerspace initiative in Nigeria, Making the SDGs, in partnership with my friend and colleague, Jacob Sule, which aims to empower and support students/youths in rural Nigeria to help to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, through a network of makerspaces.
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The Philosophy of Makerspaces - Diana Rendina @DianaLRendina

The  Philosophy of Makerspaces - Diana Rendina @DianaLRendina | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Writing a post like this isn’t easy.  I feel like I know in my heart what my philosophy on makerspaces is, but putting it into tangible statements seems harder.  So I started thinking about this more as a manifesto – if I was to make a grand statement about what I feel the value of makerspaces in schools are, what would it be?  To me, what are the most important values of makerspaces?
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5 ways to use makerspaces to support personalized learning

5 ways to use makerspaces to support personalized learning | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
At this stage of the edtech revolution, most educators are focused on using tech to enhance lessons rather than on the tech itself. But many times, tech is only integrated at specific points in the classroom or with a specific tool as determined by the teacher. At St. Albans City School in Vermont, SETDA’s 2018 Student Voices Award Winner, educators encourage the students to find places in their everyday work to incorporate digital resources, especially from their makerspace. In the edWebinar “Students Leverage Technology Tools and Makerspaces to Personalize Learning,” Grace Borst, innovation specialist at St. Albans City School, and several of her students explained how they’re using technology for assessment, service work, and more.

St. Albans City School has a dedicated makerspace open to all students from preK-8. In addition to class assignments in the space, open lab time is also available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Students use this time for school and personal projects where tech might not be required but could add value. Although they miss class for open lab, the teachers recognize the benefits of letting students explore technology to help them achieve their personal and educational goals.

Here are some examples the student presenters shared about how they’ve used technology at St. Albans.
GwynethJones's curator insight, January 26, 2019 5:54 PM

"At this stage of the edtech revolution, most educators are focused on using tech to enhance lessons rather than on the tech itself."

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New Study Shows Makerspaces Develop Children's Creativity, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking & Digital Skills

New Study Shows Makerspaces Develop Children's Creativity, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking & Digital Skills | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Makerspaces have been widely advocated as a way to develop STEM abilities and soft skills. However, until now, there has been little research that investigates the learning and teaching outcomes possible with makerspaces, particularly for younger students.

Now a new Australian university research study on makerspaces in primary school settings reveals the compelling evidence of benefits of this type of learning for primary educators
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Rainy Days - S6 EP13: #Yarn #Crafts | Facebook

Rainy Days - S6 EP13: #Yarn #Crafts | Facebook | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

"Say hello to the hip new craze that doesn't need batteries - YARN!!"

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Looks like a great craft center low tech idea for a makerspace! 

 

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Read this Book: Click'd: A Novel on Coding & Friendship

Read this Book: Click'd: A Novel on Coding & Friendship | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

``I don’t normally review fiction on my blog, but Click’d ties in beautifully with makerspaces and would be a fantastic addition to your library.  Here’s why:

Read this Book: Click’d


Allie Navarro loves to code.  She also loves soccer and hanging out with her friends.  Over the summer, she gets to go a coding camp with other girls from throughout the country.  There, she creates Click’d, an app that lets you take a personality quiz and then leads you on a sort of digital scavenger hunt to find friends with similar interests that you can “click” with.   Allie can’t believe it when she gets selected to present her app at Games for Good, an app development competition. But when the whole school starts downloading her app, glitches begin to crop up, and Allie isn’t sure if she can fix it in time…

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#Maker Educator Colleen Graves: #Physical #Computing "light" - YouTube #makered

Colleen Graves, Co-author and Maker extraordinaire chats about Makey Makey, Scratch and how to quickly add maker projects into your school and library spaces.
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The Seven Myths Keeping Teachers from Designing Makerspaces - John Spencer @spencerideas

The Seven Myths Keeping Teachers from Designing Makerspaces - John Spencer @spencerideas | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
I first heard of makerspaces over a decade ago. It was a part of the do-it-yourself culture that I found intriguing. I visited a few places where people were doing high-tech fabrication and I wondered if I could somehow tie that into our economics unit where students were developing products.

But I got frustrated.

I had a vision for a really cool classroom makerspace but I simply couldn’t pull it off. There were too many moving pieces that I couldn’t figure out. Besides, I didn’t have the money or the resources and I didn’t know enough about grant writing to make it happen. I also didn’t have all of the skills to teach students about high-tech prototyping. So, I kept it in a private dream space where I wouldn’t have to do the real work of turning it into a reality.

But then something happened.
Norton Gusky's curator insight, September 10, 2018 9:38 AM
Good points that all educators need to understand to incorporate making, tinkering, creating into the learning process.
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Makerspaces, a Passing Trend? - Worlds of Learning @LFlemingEDU

Makerspaces, a Passing Trend? - Worlds of Learning @LFlemingEDU | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
I’ve been in education for 21 years and I’ve seen many trends come and go. I am on a mission to keep maker spaces from becoming another passing trend. That’s at the core of everything I do now. Maker spaces are an educational philosophy, foundationally good, and we can’t allow them to be cast aside by the cynics who might suggest it is an idea that has run its course, just a fad that was fun but it’s time to move on now. We must work to secure the future of makerspaces. Their fundamental purpose is too important; their impact on kids too significant.
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SURVEY OF ASSESSMENT IN MAKERSPACES

SURVEY OF ASSESSMENT IN MAKERSPACES | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it

"To understand the impact that the expanding maker
movement has on the demographics of maker-centered
learning environments and their assessment techniques,
we invited makerspaces across the globe to tell us about
their demographics, assessment practices, human/material
resources, and guiding philosophies. "

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Making Space for #Makerspaces - the journal #makered

Making Space for #Makerspaces - the journal #makered | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
While conducting research for my recent graduate thesis to complete my Master's degree in Educational Technology from New Jersey City University, I uncovered the fact that the maker movement, a seemingly modern creation, actually has its roots traced back thousands of years ago.  Confucius and Aristotle were both proponents of learning by doing.   Socrates provided a model of learning that is still relevant in the digital age by emphasizing the process of learning through questioning, inquiry and critical thinking.   The learning theories first advanced by these early philosophers are aligned with the modern maker movement.



Creation of pop-up makerspaces has allowed for this idea of project-based learning to grow and blossom. Using higher-order thinking skills, students are given the opportunity to problem-solve, ask questions, think, create, innovate, fix and revise. A new set of learning theories have popped up as well. Innovation and design theory have become a way of learning, with entrepreneurship at the helm.  Preparing our students for the work in the 21st century, where the ability to figure out solutions and think outside the box is fostered, will be the key to  success.
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Makerspaces Help Kids Tap Potential, Find Confidence, Success, and Friendships - School Library Journal

Makerspaces Help Kids Tap Potential, Find Confidence, Success, and Friendships - School Library Journal | iPads, MakerEd and More  in Education | Scoop.it
Finn McLaren was a shy teen who never showed an interest in sports or school clubs. He hadn’t quite found his place or an activity that sparked his interest. But when a group from the University of Michigan conducted a maker workshop at his local library in the summer of 2016, his mother saw “a total transformation.”

“It lit something up in him,” says Amanda McLaren, Finn’s mom and the director of the Benzonia (MI) Public Library that hosted the workshop.

Now 15 and a high school sophomore, Finn runs the Benzie Guild of Makers, a club he created consisting of mostly fourth to sixth graders. He is also thinking about his future.

“Because of the maker program and working with the younger kids, I have thought of a career teaching math and science, so I could incorporate making,” he says.
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