Learning Path: Learn about maker education
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The Makerspace Playbook
Starting a makerspace can be daunting, whether it’s finding a facility and equipment, engaging community members, accessing funding, or dealing with liability, etc. The Makerspace Playbook aims to make it easier to launch a space and get a program up and running. The playbook covers various topics such as setting up a physical space, acquiring…
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The State of Maker Learning Today
The State of Maker Learning Today is a collaborative report from Digital Promise and Maker Ed highlighting key insights from educators throughout the United States, spotlighting stories from the field, and offering recommendations for the future of maker learning.
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Transforming Public Education with Making and Digital Fabrication
The white paper, entitled Transforming Public Education with Making and Digital Fabrication, summarizes the history of the maker movement, the current status of maker education and projects a path forward to adoption, quality, and sustainability related to broadening participation in STEM, and more specifically digital fabrication and making. The paper is framed in equity-based story-telling…
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From the Creators of Learning in the Making: Live!
In this essay, Dora Medrano Ramos and Linda Le share why they created Learning in the Making, an online video series that serves as a powerful response to the persistent omission of youth of color and educators of color from the dominant narratives surrounding maker education.
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MakerEd’s Youth Makerspace Playbook
This comprehensive handbook for educators in any setting offers practical suggestions on finding spaces to make, outfitting spaces with tools and materials, exploring the possible educational approaches within spaces, and sustaining spaces in the long-term.
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Supporting Making-Centered Experiences in Distance-Learning Contexts
This research brief captures various approaches to creating distance maker-centered learning experiences. It outlines key components of making, design considerations for access, as well as snapshots of how organizations have adapted their maker-centered programming in response to COVID-19 in-person closures.
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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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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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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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The Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio Projects
This online database of project ideas and instructional guides from the Tinkering Studio, part of the interactive Exploratorium museum, can provide inspiration for developing your own activities in your kitchen, garage, classroom, and community.