“Make”ing it PossibleMakerspaces Explained
June 24, 2018
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Overview
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Initial Introduction
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What is a Makerspace?
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"A Makerspace is a unique learning environment that encourages tinkering, play, and open ended exploration for all. Laura Flemming Worlds of Making
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The focus is not on the completion of a specific project to be graded but rather the process of creating, inventing, and problem solving.
Mrs.Geeky
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Why a Makerspace?
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The Creativity Crisis:
The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
Kyung Hee Kim | College of William and Mary
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TEACHER MAKERS LEAD TO
STUDENT MAKERS
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MAKING THE SPACE
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Low Tech Makerspaces
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High Tech Makerspaces
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Create the Space
Classroom?
Library?
Both?How will it be used?
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Makerspace DBA
Production Lab
Integrated Learning Center Creation StationCoLabratory iLAB
Boiler Lab
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SHOE ORGANIZER MAKERSPACE
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PEGBOARD MAKERSPACE
MAGNETIC BOARD MAKERSPACE
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Mobile Makerspace
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CUSTOM DESIGNED PORTABLE MAKERSPACE
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Create the Space
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Create the Space
an old storage room
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Stuff For Your Makerspace
LABEL MAKER AND LABELS
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Stuff For Your Makerspace
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Stuff for your Makerspace
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How will I use my Makerspace!
Grab from the Headlines
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Save me!
Design something to rescue this poor racoon who climbed up the side of the building and is stuck! *The windows do no open
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Help the Zoo!
Design something that will help feed the animals in case of an emergency or assist the zoo keepers to get into the zoo.
The Zoo had flooded and had to close. How will the animals be fed? Is there a way to help the zoo keepers get around the flooded areas so they can feed the animals.
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Mr. Bear Needs a Chair!
Can you help Mr. Bear and design a Chair?Copyright © Laurie Green | Mrs.Geeky LLC all rights reserved
“Makerspaces provide the ready opportunity for students to imagine, create,test and reimagine ideas for solutions to those teachable moment that arise in the classroom”
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We need a balloon powered car.
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YOUR MAKERSPACE JOURNEY…...
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The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made
knowledge.Dr. Seymour Papert | Father of the Maker Movement | 1980
MIT Media Lab
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