School Makerspaces: Building the Buzz

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Wed, 2016-11-23 11:00
Do you want your school to have a culture of making and active learning? By creating Makerspaces your school will be able to engage students in real world challengers and support educator. Once created and utilized Makerspaces can promote awareness of the senses and help everyone feel the change. These ideas can be publicly celebrated by all.

“Classroom practices that emphasize students doing things actively rather than passively absorbing information are effective in helping students to gain skills and attitudes that will help them keep learning new skills. Teachers need support in taking risks to make active learning possible.”

Makerspaces can create a buzz in the educational process by establishing a culture of doing. Design thinking can be used to help cultivate projects and ideas. Any space of any size can be used to start. The changes can be small incremental changes to create organic growth. The key is to start somewhere and let Makerspaces take off!
Teachers need encouragement and professional development to change their mindsets and become facilitators of learning.
~ Blake Auchincloss and Lisa Yokana

Key Takeaways:

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Sometimes teachers have a hard time being facilitators of learning. They need to be encouraged.
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Small changes in the classroom can help change students opinions about learning from passive to active.
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Transform the classroom to a new and exciting space for children to learn.
Read the full article here:
http://www.edutopia.org//blog/school-makerspaces-building-the-buzz-lisa-yokana