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Episode 96: What Is the Point of a Makerspace?

…that and they can move. And so the class is sort of permanently a makerspace and you can just use the space whenever you want to. So it really depends on your style. If you think that those items will be a distraction, then I think having it as stations or mobile makerspaces works best, but if you think that, you know, “I always want to have a makerspace at all times, whether we use it as a makerspace or not, then something like a differentiated space model might work better.” GONZALEZ: And if somebody’s sort of, “Eh, I don’t…

What Is the Point of a Makerspace?

…to do…like one or two Snap Circuits. I would have a couple computers devoted specifically to using something like Hour of Code or Scratch, and then I would probably have a podcasting area and a green screen area.” The Makerspace Master Course Teachers who are ready to get serious about adding a makerspace to their classroom should check out Spencer’s Makerspace Master Course. This online course covers everything from the pedagogical foundations of makerspaces to how to set up and manage a makerspace in your classroom. I am an affiliate of this course, which means I receive a commission on…

Episode 38: The School Library that Increased Student Use by 1,000 Percent

…things that are out there, there isn’t a lot. When I say that, there’s more makerspaces than what we’re calling common learning spaces in schools. So, we took that idea and just ran with it. How the Learning Center Differs from a Makerspace Gonzalez: So, that’s a good thing for us to get clear right off the top of this, is that you all are calling this the Learning Center. You would not refer to it as a makerspace. Kitchen: Not at all. I think, as I’ve been around the country presenting on different aspects of 21st century, the big…

How This School Library Increased Student Use by 1,000 Percent

…ideas and insights here, Jennifer! I was just talking to a librarian who felt she wasn’t sure a “makerspace” is what her campus needed. This may give her another idea! Thanks for sharing this! Leslie Where should I start looking to get furniture like the kind in this space? Any grants that you know of to help fund this? Thanks! EDMAR LABRADOR This was an excellent idea, especially for a diminishing usage of the library. Other than makerspace, can you share other ideas that can make my library improve its usage? Thank you. Kathy Dempsey Different strategies work for different…

Episode 133: How One Makerspace is Meeting Students’ Social-Emotional Needs

…run the Success and Innovation Center at Mt. Blue campus, which is a combination makerspace and human-centered problem solving space. GONZALEZ: Ah, see I couldn’t figure out how to phrase, I knew it was a combination makerspace and something else, and I thought how are they putting this to students, because you wouldn’t call it a social workspace. RYDER: No and we, we were and we, initially, and we, we got some pushback, some very justified pushback. GONZALEZ: Yeah. RYDER: From some folks, and also we knew that that wasn’t the best way to describe it. GONZALEZ: Right. RYDER: The…

9 Simple Solutions for Common Teaching Problems

…on the more complex issues. What You Can Do Tomorrow: Establishing a true tech team takes some time, but right away, you can make a list of students you know to be pretty tech-savvy. Beside their names, list the tools each student is proficient in. Put this list in a public location in your classroom. Then, the next time students are working with a piece of technology, have them go to the students who know that tool for help. 2. Inspiration Boards From Make Writing: 5 Teaching Strategies that Turn Writer’s Workshop into a Maker Space The Problem: In writing classes, students…

Episode 73: How One Teacher Started an Urban Gardening Revolution

…the South Bronx. I liked rolling them down. I loved hearing the music, I loved seeing the art, I loved connecting with people and a sense of spirit and resiliency that was the maker movement long before the maker movement even happened. Realize we had children putting together music and creating turntables and block parties and going off the grid in ways that have become celebrated and world-renowned today. GONZALEZ: So you recognized those qualities and those talents right off the bat, it’s just that you hadn’t quite figured out the … I mean I can see it in your…

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How One Makerspace is Meeting Students’ Social-Emotional Needs

…and the best principles of social-emotional learning and fuses them together so that through our space, the act of making and creating can also help with the other parts of ourselves besides just academic learning.” Here’s how the center came into being: Several years ago, Ryder had already established a small makerspace in his own English classroom. “I started the makerspace in my room not because I wanted kids making things, but because I had adopted design thinking as my lens through which I was doing everything, and we needed to prototype solutions to stuff. So I kind of went…