American Perspectives on Learning Communities and Opportunities in the Maker Movement
American Perspectives on Learning Communities and Opportunities in the Maker Movement

Author: Barker, Bradley S.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1522583114

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The maker movement culture emphasizes informal, peer-led, and shared learning, while driving innovation. Even though some experts view the maker movement as a move backward to pre-industrial revolution manufacturing, the purpose of making is not to have an abundance of tools in one space; rather, it is about helping participants create personally meaningful projects with the help of mentors, experts, and peers in ad-hoc learning communities. American Perspectives on Learning Communities and Opportunities in the Maker Movement is an essential reference source that discusses the maker movement in the United States, artisanal perspectives, and the learning-through-doing perspective. Featuring research on topics such as educational spaces, management, creativity labs, makerspaces, and operating procedures, this book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, artisans, academicians, researchers, manufacturing professionals, and students.

European Perspectives on Learning Communities and Opportunities in the Maker Movement
European Perspectives on Learning Communities and Opportunities in the Maker Movement

Author: Barker, Bradley S.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1522583084

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While some manufacturing experts see the maker movement as a step back in education and production, the movement presents a learn-by-doing approach to emerging professionals. Making is a method that takes some resources and modifies these resources in a way that makes the sum more valuable than the parts. European Perspectives on Learning Communities and Opportunities in the Maker Movement is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of value creation and problem solving within European learning communities. While highlighting topics including alternative learning methods, biomimetics, connected learning theory, and gentrification, this book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business professionals, manufacturers, carpenters, production experts, educators, academicians, industry professionals, researchers, and students seeking current research on the maker movement with examination through case studies.

Worlds of Making
Worlds of Making

Author: Laura Fleming

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2015-01-30

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1483382842

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Makerspaces: Your questions answered here! Get the nuts and bolts on imagining, planning, creating, and managing a cutting-edge Makerspace for your school community. Nationally recognized expert Laura Fleming provides all the answers in this breakthrough guide. From inception through implementation, you’ll find invaluable guidance for creating a vibrant Makerspace on any budget. Practical strategies and anecdotal examples help you: Create an action plan for your own personalized Makerspace Align activities to standards Showcase student creations Use this must-have guide to painlessly build a robust, unique learning environment that puts learning back in the hands of your students!

Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age
Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age

Author: Cheryl A. McLean

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1000222764

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This book explores “making” in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement and wonder that unfolds with maker literacies, the book moves across such settings and themes as: Creativity and writing in classrooms Making and developing civic engagement Emotional experiences of making Race and gender in makerspace Game-based play and coding in schools and draws its case studies from the Netherlands, Finland, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Giving as broad a perspective on makerspaces, making, and design as possible, the book will help scholars expand their understandings and help educators appreciate the power and worth of making to inspire students. It is useful for anyone hoping to apply design, maker, and makerspace approaches to their teaching and learning.

Making and Makerspaces in Education
Making and Makerspaces in Education

Author: Sylvia Martinez

Publisher: National Professional Resources Inc

Published: 2018-11-30

Total Pages: 6

ISBN-13: 1938539214

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This 6-page (tri-fold) laminated guide is a concise yet comprehensive quick-reference tool that draws on lessons from the Maker Movement to help educators create classrooms and schools that offer engaging hands-on, minds-on learning experiences for students in grades K-12. Making is more than something students do; it’s a stance towards learning that puts the learner in charge, giving students time to brainstorm, invent, design, and build. This is an iterative cycle that includes time to fix mistakes, improve, test, and improve again. Developing a “maker mindset” means students build resilience and determination by working through challenges without being told what to do every step of the way. This guide helps educators get started with making, offering a framework for planning the logistics, student experience, and space design, with an eye toward building inclusive makerspaces. It provides practical guidance on planning a makerspace and makerspace program, with detailed recommendations for • Projects and logistics; • Tools and materials; • Space design. Other features of the guide include: • General considerations for materials to collect and technology to buy for makerspaces. • Specific recommendations for free, low-cost, and “worth spending money on” tools and technology for grades pre-K-4, upper elementary and middle school, and high schools. • Three game-changing technologies. Making offers a path to implementation of STEM and STEAM that does more than prepare students for the next academic challenge or a future career, it enables them to be inventors, engineers, scientists, and mathematicians today. The DIY culture of making helps students develop crucial 21st century skills, such as critical thinking, creativity and problem solving, all while having fun and finding their personal passions and means of self expression. This guide will help you get started with making today!

Free to Make
Free to Make

Author: Dale Dougherty

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1623170753

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A fascinating study of the global Maker Movement that explores how ‘making’ impacts our personal and social development—perfect for enthusiastic DIY-ers Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the “renaissance of making,” an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us. As the internet thrives and world-changing technologies—like 3D printers and tiny microcontrollers—become increasingly affordable, people around the world are moving away from the passivity of one-size-fits-all consumption and command-and-control models of education and business. Free to Make explores how making revives abandoned and neglected urban areas, reinvigorates community spaces like libraries and museums, and even impacts our personal and social development—fostering a mindset that is engaged, playful, and resourceful. Free to Make asks us to imagine a world where making is an everyday occurrence in our schools, workplaces, and local communities, grounding us in the physical world and empowering us to solve the challenges we face.

Makeology
Makeology

Author: Kylie Peppler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1317537157

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Makeology introduces the emerging landscape of the Maker Movement and its connection to interest-driven learning. While the movement is fueled in part by new tools, technologies, and online communities available to today’s makers, its simultaneous emphasis on engaging the world through design and sharing with others harkens back to early educational predecessors including Froebel, Dewey, Montessori, and Papert. Makerspaces as Learning Environments (Volume 1) focuses on making in a variety of educational ecosystems, spanning nursery schools, K-12 environments, higher education, museums, and after-school spaces. Each chapter closes with a set of practical takeaways for educators, researchers, and parents.

Makeology
Makeology

Author: Kylie Peppler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-20

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1317537092

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Makeology introduces the emerging landscape of the Maker Movement and its connection to interest-driven learning. While the movement is fueled in part by new tools, technologies, and online communities available to today’s makers, its simultaneous emphasis on engaging the world through design and sharing with others harkens back to early educational predecessors including Froebel, Dewey, Montessori, and Papert. Makers as Learners (Volume 2) highlights leading researchers and practitioners as they discuss and share current perspectives on the Maker movement and research on educational outcomes in makerspaces. Each chapter closes with a set of practical takeaways for educators, researchers, and parents.

Learning in the Making
Learning in the Making

Author: Jackie Gerstein

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1416628444

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Making is a dynamic and hands-on learning experience that directly connects with long-established theories of how learning occurs. Although it hasn't been a focus of traditional education or had a prominent place in the classroom, teachers find it an accessible, exciting option for their students. The maker movement brings together diverse communities dedicated to creating things through hands-on projects. Makers represent a growing community of builders and creators—engineers, scientists, artists, DIYers, and hobbyists of all ages, interests, and skill levels—who engage in experimentation and cooperation. Transferring this innovative, collaborative, and creative mindset to the classroom is the goal of maker education. A makerspace isn't about the latest tools and equipment. Rather, it's about the learning experiences and opportunities provided to students. Maker education spaces can be as large as a school workshop with high-tech tools (e.g., 3D printers and laser cutters) or as small and low-tech as the corner of a classroom with bins of craft supplies. Ultimately, it's about the mindset—not the "stuff." In Learning in the Making, Jackie Gerstein helps you plan, execute, facilitate, and reflect on maker experiences so both you and your students understand how the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of maker education transfer to real-world settings. She also shows how to seamlessly integrate these activities into your curriculum with intention and a clearly defined purpose.

The Maker Mentality
The Maker Mentality

Author: Nicholas Provenzano

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06-22

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781721611935

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Makerspaces are spreading across the country, but administrators and teachers are having a difficult time finding ways to integrate them into their learning environments. Using his personal experiences as a maker, makerspace director, teacher, and bonafide nerd, Nicholas breaks down the key aspects of the Maker Mentality and how each part of the learning community can work to make a positive change in their school's culture. Filled with wonderful nerdy analogies, The Maker Mentality is the perfect book for any educator looking to take making and makerspaces to the next level.