Format: Stories & Examples
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Tla’amin Basket Weaving: Coding and Indigenous Teaching
This teacher blog post details a rich hands-on activity that integrates coding and indigenous basket weaving, replete with links to additional resources and contexts.
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Whose Agency? Building Critical Consciousness through Maker-Centered Learning and Arts Integration
In this Ignite Talk, Kurt Kaaekuahiwi and his students explore how art and making can impact engagement within the course. Kurt asks, “How do we humanize using Arts and Making in ways that promoted critical consciousness?”
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Incorporating Maker-Centered Learning at Van Ness
In this video, you will learn how Maker-centered learning is integrated throughout students’ work at Van Ness Elementary School.
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Ancestral Tech and Making
How do we recognize, celebrate, and sustain indigenous and ancestral ways of making? Crystal Barajas Barr, an Art and STE(A)M Teacher at Urban Promise Academy Middle School in Oakland, shares her approach to maker education in these activity examples and reflections.
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Assessing Learning in Maker Education
This article takes a look at how maker education is assessed—and how assessment is evolving to measure more than just content.
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How to incubate creativity in schools through making and discovery
Get a glimpse of how one elementary and middle school integrates making into its culture and curriculum in this article giving voice to students and teachers.
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Middle school maker journey
In this article, middle school teacher Kevin Jarrett reviews the manifesto, mantra, and materials necessary to make a middle school maker program from scratch.
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How Libraries can turn stories into Maker Projects
In this article, read about how maker program coordinator, Nora Peters, saw an opportunity to better connect the activities of the maker space with the library’s mission to promote literacy by creating maker activities for children’s books.