Our Makerspaces work together more than just about any state's spaces.
Schools are a natural partner for Makerspaces- filled with eager audience and engaged educators.
As community Makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario's elementary schools,
students are behaving better.
Makerspaces, however, give makers access to those less-than-convenient tools
to build projects that might otherwise be impossible.
Maker culture is
spreading throughout cities at a grassroots level as the number of Makerspaces keeps growing.
Safety credentialing is a complex issue that Makerspaces have handled in a lot of different ways.
Making is a cycle, and African Makerspaces are already pioneering and leading circular economy at the grassroots.
Academia feels more authentic and
children actually look forward to studying, as Makerspaces help children understand what they're capable of
and makes learning adventurous.
With the annual Rocky
Mountain Makerspace Summit we bring together Makerspaces to learn best practices,
for older spaces to mentor new ones, and to collaborate.
The tech-savvy ones are either building or
upgrading existing Makerspaces with PCs so students of all ages can
experience the concepts taught in class come to life.
Then the Makerspaces came to us
and said,“We need to have an annual meeting of Makerspaces and we're too busy to make that work at the Faire.
Since the inception of the site more than 62,000 projects have been funded,
including the creation of Makerspaces like the LA Maker Space and MakerKidz in Annapolis.
Editor's note: Madison Worthy and Miriam Engle are biking across Europe,
visiting different Makerspaces, and filming Self-Made, a documentary about their adventure and the Makers they meet.
Editor's note: Madison Worthy and Miriam Engle biked across Europe,
where they visited different Makerspaces, and filmed Self-Made, a documentary about their adventure and the Makers they met.
Although inspired by hackerspaces, Makerspaces were no longer places just for tinkering or modifying code
but were rather somewhere you could fabricate and construct objects, prototypes, and projects.
Self-awareness is key to leveraging strengths and
working on weak points Makerspaces combined with PC enabled learning will
help your child to be creative, confident and consistent with learning.
Amongst the announcements made today by President Obama at the White House Maker Faire
is the creation of a new funding category for Makerspaces by the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
Makerspaces are the library of the future,
and cultivating a Maker mind-set will help your child develop the right skills they need to succeed to in the technologically driven world of tomorrow.
I hope it might be valuable to other
people trying to frame how they think about Makerspaces or Making in general- but they
have larger implications for how we approach all sorts of related work:.
It was through this work that I became excited about how the maker movement was utilizing similar tactics for education reform as the food movement,
but how Makerspaces had a clearer justification for college and career readiness for students,
particularly for those historically marginalized by the education system.
Home to more Makerspaces than you can shake a stick at, Colorado is
impressive for more than just the sheer number of Makerspaces- it's their dedication to collaborating with one another in the interest of spreading the joy of making far and wide that deserves a standing ovation.