research cafe october 8th maker education

Maker Education: the next wave of teaching and learning innovation?

Mark Feltham@markfeltham666 HEdW rks

The ‘Internet of Things’

The Maker MovementA growing community of people finding expression of their creative skills in designing and making things…

… learning by doing…

…and sharing what they learn and do with others…

Makerfaires: the greatest ‘show and tell’ on earth

A learning revolution is happening outside our doors

Hackerspaces, Makerspaces and Fablabs

Makerspaces in the UK

Noisebridge

Bringing the maker culture into the classroom: game changers for education

Putting the learner in charge.

Giving students time to brainstorm, invent, design, and build—and then time to fix mistakes, improve, test, and improve again…

Think. Make. Learn. Share

The ‘maker ethos’

Maker Education: new learning horizonsComputer controlled fabrication devices

3D printing

Portable 3D scanners

Pepakura

Computer controlled fabrication devices

Physical computing

Maker Education: new learning horizons

Computer controlled fabrication devices

Physical computing

Coding

Maker Education: new learning horizons

Learning is personal

“The best way for students to become deeply invested in their work is for their projects to be personally meaningful, afforded sufficient development time, given access to constructive materials, and the students themselves encouraged to overcome challenges”.

Ownership

Experience

Risk taking

The maker revolution

‘Butterfly Pi’

STEAM

Learning by ‘doing’

Recognising the value of making

University Makerspaces

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Making in an academic context: JMU’s Maker Education Working Group (MEWG)

Mark Feltham@markfeltham666

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Making in an academic context: ignoring the manual

Making in an academic context: G:37 ‘makerspace’ @Byrom Street

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Making in an academic context: modes of study

From ‘know not’… to robot

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Surf’s up…grab your boards