Are You Ready to Transform Teaching and Learning!?

Whether you are new to this makerspace journey or a makerspace maniac like me, this site is here to help! You will find the pedagogical frameworks for WHY we should have makerspaces along with all of the fun materials of a makerspace including print resources, ideas, student challenges, tutorials and MUCH MORE!! You makerspace might be in a cart or bin, or an entire learning commons or library...it doesn't matter because makerspace is for any teacher on any budget. This is about good teaching and learning PERIOD. It is not about the stuff you have, it is about what you do with it to transform teaching and learning! LETS GET MAKING!

What is New!?

Check out these exciting new resources recently added to Makerspace for Education! 

Make the World a Better Place!

Welcome to your exciting day of hands on learning! Today we are going to explore Micro:bits, Makey Makey, Coding and Robotics, Green Screen, Stop Motion, Cardboard Creations, Digital Making, Virtual Reality, and much much more! Our theme for the day is “MAKE the World a Better Place” with each of our sessions focusing on using these makerspace tools in authentic ways with students to help them grow as discerning believers of Edmonton Catholic Schools! 

Bring Learning off the Page with Virtual and Augmented Reality!

Creating virtual reality (VR), 360 video and mixed reality environments for teaching and learning has never been easier or less expensive. This site will demonstrate CoSpaces for digital storytelling, coding and VR models, as well as 360 video for immersing teachers in professional learning and therapy for special needs students. ​

We are Presenting at ISTE 2019!

Traditional AT Switch technology can be expensive, hard to find, prone to breaking and is often one size fits all. With simple everyday materials and a Makey Makey, students and teachers can create personalized AT switches based on passions and interests! Our Grade 8 Computer Science Students built personal AT switches for 8 high needs students using Makey Makey and Scratch!

Our Purpose!

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The purpose of Makerspace for Education is to provide educators with a hands-on, creative, user friendly, “anytime, anyplace”, professional development tool that can be used as part of a community of practice. It allows educators to inform themselves, with tools at their fingertips, on the various aspects of the makerspace as they are ready. Using interactive tools that allow access to necessary information, directly from a user-friendly interface and based on the key frameworks of constructionism and constructivism, makerspace, design thinking and media literacies, teachers will have the tools they need to begin, or continue, their makerspace journeys. This site will evolve and grow as the participating educators add to the content and support the construction of knowledge.