Definitions
According to Roffey, Sverko, & Therien, this "is a constructivist and constructionist movement that is taking the world by storm!"
What is a makerspace?
Playing board games provides this type of learning experience.
What is collaborative?
This AASL initiative includes four main standards for libraries: think, create, share, and grow.
What is Learning4Life?
These popular building blocks were part of Dr. Kuon's initial attempt at a makerspace in her library.
What are Legos?
Makerspace furniture should be this, allowing for multiple configurations.
What is flexible?
She defined a school makerspace as "a place where young people have an opportunity to explore their own interests".
Who is Laura Flemming?
Students experience this important lesson during the experimenting stage of making.
What is learning from failures.
This is often the biggest classroom in the school building.
What is the library?
Dr. Kuon recommends not spending much of this when starting a makerspace.
What is money?
The makerspace must have plenty of these located nearby to keep everything "juiced" and ready to go.
What are electrical outlets OR charging stations?
They include fine arts, sciences, crafts, industrial technologies, foods, inventions, textiles, hobbies, service learning, digital media, upcycling, STEM/STEAM, DIY, and DIT.
Makerspaces provide exceptional opportunities for students to engage with these current buzzword skills.
What are 21st Century Learning Skills?
This maker designation is for people who need some help to start a makerspace.
What is a Learner?
Surprisingly, students often prefer these makerspace options over high-tech ones.
Careful consideration must be made to include this in the makerspace to ensure materials are organized and accessible.
A makerspace can be either physical or this.
What is virtual?
The addition of these TWO disciplines has helped bring STEM to life for even more learners.
What are Art and Design?
This maker designation is for people ready to have a Makerspace but they are looking for collaborators.
What is an Experimenter?
Students often enjoy this type of makerspace activity where they try to make something the biggest, fastest, or tallest.
What is a competition?
What is origami?
This four step model for makerspace implementation and use includes using, tinkering, experimenting, and creating.
What is UTEC?
Makerspaces allow students to develop this concept coined by Carol Dweck in 2000.
What is a growth mindset?
This maker designation is for people with nearly all of the personal qualities necessary to facilitate an outstanding makerspace.
What is a Maker?
This is the maker designation for people who dig through other people's recycling bins looking for "treasures".
What is a makerspace junkie?
Adults can increase student ownership in the makerspace by including this within the space.
What are displays of student products?