Topic: Maker-Centered Learning
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MakerEd Program Visioning Guide
These visioning activities were created in collaboration with educators across the country during our Making Spaces program (2016-2022). This package is now available to all folx working to integrate hands-on, learner-driven, equitable learning into their work. The 6 modules of activities are designed to support you throughout the program design journey, whether you are teaching…
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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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Cultivating a Repair Mindset Toolkit
The Repair Mindset Toolkit, which was developed and tested by educators, includes teaching and learning strategies, tactics, and classroom materials designed to develop students’ Repair Mindset. The toolkit presents new approaches to thinking routines, invites and complements discussions of the environment (e.g., Circular Economy), economics (e.g., extractive capitalism), politics (Right to Repair), ethics (e.g., social…
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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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Cyber Arcade: Programming and Making with micro:bit
This curriculum is a fun and creative introduction to computer science and hands-on making for makers in elementary and middle school grade levels with little to no experience in programming and 3D design. Using a Micro:bit and MakeCode, young makers practice problem-solving and teamwork to create interactive arcade games.
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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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Learning to Be Brave and Breathe: An Interview with Reyna Hamilton
In this interview, Maker Ed chats with Reyna Hamilton: a versatile educator, maker, and tinkerer; Manager of School Programs at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science; and guest host on Learning in the Making: Shapes in Nature Parts 1 and 2.
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Girl Scouts: Get making with get moving!
In this booklet, discover what the Maker Movement is and how it can bring exciting hands-on activities related to energy into the Girl Scouts Get Moving! Journey.
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Makerspace @ the Tech cookbook
This comprehensive handbook documents maker-centered programming and activities for a drop-in museum context and includes learning goals, materials lists, set-up, facilitation tips, and more!