As an experiential educator who has fully embraced technology as a means for allowing and facilitating learner voice, creativity, innovation, inventiveness, the Maker Education movement fits into my vision about what a good education entails. I have been blogging and presenting about Maker Education – see http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/tag/maker-education/. But recent discussions with other educators and administrators made me realize that the idea of maker education is often vague and seems unrealistic in terms of regular classroom instruction. As such, in the future, I am going to associate and discuss Maker Education in the context S.T.E.A.M. – science, technology, engineering, arts (including language arts), math, hopefully, encouraging regular classroom teachers to integrate maker education projects into their classrooms.
Projects made with littleBits: Explore our DIY electronics community where everyone from designers to kids are creating amazing things with littleBits.
The Lab of Awesome is a Makerspace at the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Engage Lab. It’s a place where all kinds of people with diverse skills and interests can come together to create with, learn from, and inspire eachother. In the Lab of Awesome, there are no teachers or students – everyone is a maker, which is the first of their five tenets:Everyone is a makerPerformance before competenceFailure is progressDoing is the best kind of thinking Create your ideal world
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.
Another printing application that probably wouldn't be housed in a LIbrary Makerspace - but the prototyping and other design and development work could certainly emerge from a makerspace.
The makerspace is not just a hands-on workshop but a transdisciplinary collaborative for innovation, invention and discovery.
Be sure to join us for a Google+ Hangout and Twitter chat on October 22 at 8 PM EST. Our guest will be Diana Rendina and the topic will be makerspaces in your school library. The hashtag for the...
Most computers-on-a-stick come with an HDMI port, and a few USB ports, but Inverse Path’s dongle is quite different. USB Armory is a flash drive sized computer powered by Freescale i.MX53...
Sprout is a large flat-screen display with a flat touch-enabled work surface and an overhead assembly that combines a projector and a 3-D scanner. "The overhead device projects images downward onto the work surface, which users can manipulate with their hands or with a stylus. They can also easily add new elements to the image by scanning objects or other images directly on the work surface."
Renee Peoples explains how a high-tech 3D printer can impact learning, even in a 3rd grade classroom. She obtained her printer through DonorsChoose.org and discovered that 3D printers can add a new dimension to learning!
"The Othermill is a portable, precise milling machine that allows you to create 2D and 3D objects out of durable materials, such as wood, metal, and plastic, using digital designs." (Yes please!)
Zines are small-circulation, self-published magazines. Their emergence can be traced back to fanzine, a term used by science-fiction fans from the 1940s to set their amateur publications about popular…
Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a Makerspace. The Makerspace Starter Kit includes: Makerspace Welcome Letter (pdf) Makerspace Starter Kit (pdf) Mini Maker Notebook (pdf) If the link...
"Justin Ellis’s official title at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s library is instructional-technology associate, but he thinks of himself as the gadget guy. He manages a program at the library that lets students and professors check out a growing catalog of computers, cameras, and other electronics—a selection more akin to a Best Buy store than a lending library."
MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technolo...
Eben Upton, the founder of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, has shown off a new piece of hardware that's likely to expand the ecosystem around its single board..
What is a Makerspace?A place where people can collaborate, innovate, and create using information, resources, tools, and collections provided at the library. People can play, tinker, explore, or pursue personal or professional goals. Goals:Spur innovation and artistic expression through hands-on experiencesCollaborate with the community to explore talents, skills, and expertiseBuild technology confidence and integrate technologies into our services, spaces, and processesWho we areWe are the public library in the seaside community of Duxbury, Massachusetts.We have a staff of 20.We offer programs for adults, teens and children.Space usage has to be multi-purpose.We are re-imagining our role in a rapidly changing world.
Eben Upton, the founder of the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, has shown off a new piece of hardware that's likely to expand the ecosystem around its single board..
As someone who gets off on material culture (but struggles with space constraints, financial reality and environmental concerns), I was struck by Bruce Sterling's Venn diagram depicting "anticonventional objects" -- a phrase that pretty much sums up my wunderkammer urge.
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