Find 5 Friday!
Make, make, make, make, make, make (to the tune of Rihanna’s song, Work)!
Check out my Find 5 for this week:
Curriculum Lab in Landman Library! - The School of Education at Arcadia has a sort of makerspace right on campus in the library called the Curriculum Lab. This is a space with a ton of great teacher resources that we have access to. If you are in the area, I definitely encourage you to check it out and make based on what you find!
“It’s about the meaning we can make” - I really appreciated this quote from this article about the 4 myths of maker education which we were assigned this week. I think it’s important to remember that in maker education, it’s not necessarily about what is made but the connections created and the meaning attached to what is made. That is how true, lasting learning takes place!
Higher Education Makerspaces: Engaged Students, Hands-on Skills, Interdisciplinary Connections - This article, from Spring 2017, addresses the use of makerspaces in higher education, and how these spaces provide opportunities for interdisciplinary learning and application.
Makerspaces: The Future of Education (TEDx) - This video is from 2013, so it is a little old, but the speaker pushes for more makerspaces in order to innovate the way that we teach and learn in the 21st century. I also appreciate that the speaker brings up the benefit of using makerspaces as a space where students can learn to fail. So important!
“I can do that!” - I really like this article because it addresses the ways in which makerspaces can be accessible and not be very expensive to create and upkeep. Additionally, this quote really stood out to me “The whole idea of a maker space is really ill-conceived because it suggests that making happens in a contained and isolated environment—down the hall in room 313 between periods four and six.” Let that sink in. And now think, what can we do to infuse maker education across classrooms and curriculum and even outside of school?













