add a makerspace to your classroom
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The Maker Movement is gaining more steam and you can help your students become creators rather than just consumers by helping them get involved. Makerspaces are not just 3D printers and CNC machines, makerspaces are a frame of mind. This talk will help you add a Makerspace to any classroom and will help anyone become a maker.TRANSCRIPT
Add a Makerspace to your Classroom
2013 MSEA Convention
Who Are We?
Shawn Grimes Steph Grimes
TechnologistApp Developer
Director of TechnologyMaker
@shawng
Former TeacherApp Designer
Director of CurriculumMaker
@createdbysteph
Our Projects
Rec Center
What We DoDigital Harbor Foundation Tech Center
Today’s Agenda
• Making, Makers, Makerspaces
• Why create a classroom makerspace?
• How to create a classroom makerspace
• Let’s Make Something!
• Questions
Vocabulary
• Making - the act of creating something
• Maker - a person that makes or produces something
• Makerspace - publicly accessible places to design & create
Why Create a Classroom
Makerspace?
Value of Making for Youth
• Creative problem solving
• Learn how to learn
• High engagement, High interest
• Supplement curriculum based learning
• Passion-based learning
• Everyone can be a maker
The Time is Now
• Prepare youth for tomorrow by preparing them for today
• Common Core, Next Gen Science Standards, ISTE Nets
• We don’t know the careers of the future
How to Create a Classroom Makerspace
What Do You Do In A Maker Space?
• Start Small:
• Kits
• Small Projects - Art Bots
• Increment:
• Makey Makey
• Scratch
Starting Small
• Caine’s Cardboard Challenge
• http://cainesarcade.com
Types Of Maker Spaces
• Designated Space
• Modular Space
• Makerspace in a Box
How?• Open Lunch
• After school
• Before school
• Innovation Day
• Tinker Time (stations)
• Family Night
Funding A Makerspace
• Use part of your budget
• DonorsChoose campaign (www.donorschoose.org/)
• Seek grants
• Community fundraising through your club
• Local company sponsorships
Peek into a Makerspace
Straightforward “assessment” -does it work or not?
Collaboration
Creativity
Engaged youth
Open-Ended
Reflection
Youth driven, Teacher supported
Curiosity
Project Ideas
Makey Makey
$45 - turns anything conductive into a keyboardVegetable piano, play-doh game controller
Starting around $300Print almost anything in plastic
3D Printer
Wind Tube
$40 in materials + craft suppliesExplore aerodynamics
Let’s MakeSomething!
Hands On Activity
• http://bit.ly/Class2MakerSpace
• #MakerEd chat on Twitter (Tues at 7pm)
Resources
Questions?
Contact Us
Steph Grimes [email protected]
@createdbysteph
Shawn Grimes [email protected]
@shawng
www.digitalharborfoundation.org @DHFBaltimore