PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Maker Spaces in Your Library
Three Years of Making
- Interviews (Students, Teachers, Librarians)
- Visits
- Images
- Policy Review
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- Makerspace for three years
- Student assistants (Geniuses)
- Fully implemented throughout the school
Technology (A Selection)
- 3d printers
- Music Studios
- Genius Bar
- Two Green Screen
- Minecraft Server
Projects (Highlights)
- Rube Goldberg Machine
- Skeletal System, Parts of the Body
- Connex and other Mathematics in 3D
- Eco-Friendly Community Design
- Circuit Map of Religion
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- Noisy
- Messy
- Keeping up with demand
- Philosophy of library role
The students have taken the space and made it their own. I think that's cool, that the students just completely took ownership of every facet and just seeing every single group, every single population, student type in the library all at the same time, it's just amazing.
You can create something, you can make something, the work is everywhere. So you might not be participating in the Maker Space, but you can come over here to and look at stuff. Or it's hanging on the wall. So the Maker Space productivity spills out and changes...the approach ability into the library.
I went to school when there was rows and desks and we never did group work, we never did projects. And now, you know, we want learning to happen in the hallway and outside and in the library. So I think it's great, I think we're doing a disservice to kids and students if we don't do this.
We found that with the increase in freedom our children have become more responsible.
We're really looking at how do we set that bar so that this kind of thing is not the exception but it's the norm...that there is a place that kids can go and self-direct making, and it's resourced, and it's open, and it's available to everybody.