Makerspaces - the hot trend right now in schools, libraries and education - but what is it about makerspaces that encourages learning, and are they really worth the time and effort for students, or just a fad that will gather dust when the next big thing comes along?

1. creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) Flickr photo ‘first working prototype complete!’ by mmassie:
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Beyond the Buzzword –
Creating a Makerspace in Your Library
Kay Oddone

2. Maker = Hipster?

3. Essential
Resources

4. Kay Oddone
Twitter: @KayOddone
kayoddone@iinet.net.au
My blog post:
http://tinyurl.com/makerideas

5. “An insanely brief and incomplete history
of making”
With thanks to Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager.
flickr photo by Profound Whatever http://flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/2802497364 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

6. Leonardo
Da Vinci:
“The
greatest
maker of
all time”
These works are in
the public domain.

7. John Dewey:
“Hands on
learning”

9. Lovell, E. (n.d.). Getting hands on with soft circuits - a
workshop facilitator’s guide. MIT. Retrieved from
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~emme/guide.pdf

10. Seymour Papert:
“Constructionism”

11. “What was considered science fiction a few years
ago is now the stuff of childhood. We enhance
creativity and enrich childhood when we add colours
to the crayon box and offer a larger canvas on which
to paint our future.”
Gary Stager, 2014

12. Why a makerspace?
or

13. A space
where the
community
can create
Stand alone,
or hosted
within an
organisation
Designed
around the
community
What is a makerspace?

15. Published: 2011

16. Published: 2015

17. The New Work Order:
Ensuring young
Australians have skills
and experience for the
jobs of the future, not
the past. (2015)
Melbourne: Foundation
for Young Australians.
Used with permission.

20. Used with Permission: Andrea Beaty, Rosie Revere, Engineer
http://www.andreabeaty.com/rosie-revere-pages.html
It’s a mindset!

22. “Just because it’s hands on,
doesn’t mean it’s minds on”
– Grant Wiggins
http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/experiential-learning/

23. Science
Maths Technology The Arts
Engineering
Digital
Technologies
Design and
Technologies
Visual Arts
Music
Media
Links to the curriculum? STEAM

25. Making and the
Early Years
Cardboard
construction

26. Making and
the Early
Years
Lego We-Do

27. Making and the
Middle Primary Years
Squishy Circuits

28. Making and the
Middle Primary Years
Scratch

30. Making and the
Middle Primary Years
Makey Makey

31. Making and the
Middle Primary Years
Combining Makey
Makey & Scratch

35. Making and the
Upper Primary Years
Soft Circuits
Interactive papercraft

36. creative commons licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo My hack – yay it works! by Rain Rabbit:
http://flickr.com/photos/37996583811@N01/5603366408

37. Making and the
Upper Primary Years
Lego Robotics

38. Making and
Years’ 8, 9 & 10
Arduino

39. Making and
Years’ 8, 9 & 10
3D Printing

41. TheResourceLinkMakerfaire
Experience

49. Kay Oddone
Twitter: @KayOddone
kayoddone@iinet.net.au
My blog post:
http://tinyurl.com/makerideas

50. Images used with thanks:
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