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Benefits for Your Students
Benefits for Your Students
One of the greatest advantages of makerspaces for students is the ability to self-direct their learning. A makerspace provides respite from top down teaching models where the student is expected to passively absorb content and puts students in charge of their own learning. Makerspaces also can empower students by helping them to develop resiliency. Students experiment through trial, error, and collaboration. Some of the student centered learning that makerspaces promote or complement include:
- Opportunities for deeper understanding through hands-on learning
- Collaborative learning and problem-solving
- Students as creators as opposed to consumers of content
- STEAM learning
- Authentic learning opportunities
- Personalized learning
- Complex thinking
Every Childhood Deserves a Makerspace
A talk by Innovative Educator Vipul Redey about how makerspaces revolutionize and personalize education and lead to higher thinking. We learn best by doing!
Makerspaces: Reimagining Our Libraries
Powerful and emotional personal account of the benefits of making by Andres Lazo. The sound is a little echoey, but it's worth it.
The Magic of Making: Engaging Students as Makers
Inspiring (if long) video from Dale Dougherty, founding editor of Maker Media about the importance and value for students of informal learning.
Here are some further readings on the subject to help get inspired:
Bowie, L. 25 Reasons Why Makerspaces Are A Good Thing. Ideas and Inspirations from DEMCO. http://ideas.demco.com/blog/makerspace-survey-contest-winner-announced/
New Media Consortium. (2015). New Media Consortium Horizon Report k-12 http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-k12-EN.pdf
Kurti, R. S., Kurti, D. L., & Fleming, L. (2014). The Philosophy of Educational Makerspaces. Teacher Librarian, 41(5), 8-11.
Kurti, R. S., Kurti, D., & Fleming, L. (2014). The Environment and Tools of Great Educational Makerspaces. Teacher Librarian, 42(1), 8-12.
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