Maker Ed’s Publications

Maker Ed has published a number of guides, tools, and research reports covering a wide range of topics, from assessment, to planning your first makerspace, to building local community. Explore our work by clicking on each item below!

1. • Transforming public education with making and digital fabrication. Field Building Collaborative.
   • The State of Maker Learning in collaboration with Digital Promise.
   • Shaping Educator Learning Communities: A quick guide. 

1. • Online Learning Module: Building a Maker-Centered Pathway to Invention, including Designing Learning Progressions, Approaches to Maker Education, and the Documentation Prompt Jar.
   • Cultivating a Repair Mindset in collaboration with Agency by Design Oakland.
   • Beyond Rubrics Project in collaboration with the Playful Learning Lab at MIT.
   • Opportunities and Vignettes for Library Makerspaces in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

1. • Ten Online Learning Modules, including the Values Mapping Grid and the Space Alignment chart.

1. • Tinkering workshops with educators, Building a prompt, Young Makers, Facilitator Tips

1. • Twelve Online Learning Modules (Self-paced learning modules)
   • Open Portfolio Project
   • Research report in collaboration with SRI: A Study of the Communities and Resources that Connect Educators Engaged in Making

1. • Youth Makerspace Playbook
   • Makerspaces: Highlights of Select Literature
   • Other selected publications. 

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