Resources
This page is a collection of what to read, who to follow and other resources to help educators in their makerspace journey!
Click on a book and discover more!
Click on a book and discover more!
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Makerspace Playbook School EditionWelcome to a community of people who have a passion for making things, and who want to share that with others by making with others by setting up a makerspace. The Makerspace Playbook will help you establish a wonderful new resource in your school, neighborhood, or wider local community. It shares the knowledge and experience from the makerspace team as well as from those who have already started makerspaces. We know that the thought of getting a makerspace started can be daunting, whether it's finding a facility, engaging members or students, recruiting mentors, dealing with liability, etc. We want your makerspace to succeed, to expand the maker community and grow the maker movement, to share the maker mindset and DIY mentality, and to engage and stimulate your neighborhood, school, town or region.
The MakerEd website is a perfect resource for school makerspaces and you can find out more in our Best of the Web section of this site! |
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MakerED Resources for School MakerspacesFind out what websites or resources are good for running a makerspace
The Makerspace website is a perfect resource for school makerspaces and you can find out more in our Best of the Web section of this site! |
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Youth Makerspace PlaybookThe Youth Makerspace Playbook is a resource providing context and support around planning spaces for youth to make. It offers practical suggestions on finding spaces to make, outfitting spaces with tools and materials, exploring the possible educational approaches within spaces, and sustaining spaces in the long-term.
The MakerEd website is a perfect resource for school makerspaces and you can find out more in our Best of the Web section of this site! |
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Meaningful MakingAround the world, there is a new movement to use the new tools and technology of the Maker Movement to give children authentic learning experiences beyond textbooks and tests. The Stanford FabLearn Fellows are a group of 18 educators who are working at the forefront of this new movement in all corners of the globe. They teach in FabLabs, makerspaces, classrooms, libraries, community centers, and museums – all with the goal of making learning more meaningful in the modern world.
In this book, the FabLearn Fellows share projects, assessment strategies, lesson planning guides, and ideas from their learning spaces. In over 200 pages, illustrated with color photos of real student work, the Fellows take you on a tour of the future of learning, where children make sense of the world by making things that matter to them and their communities. To read this book is to rediscover learning as it could be and should be – a joyous, mindful exploration of the world, where the ultimate discovery is the potential of every child. The FabLearn Fellows website is a perfect resource for school makerspaces and you can find out more in our Best of the Web section of this site! |
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Maker Day Tool-kit 2A Maker Day is an immersive professional development event. It is a facilitated event that requires participants to thoughtfully and fully engage in design thinking and creative problem finding. At the heart of the day is the Maker ethos which “values learning through direct experience and the intellectual and social benefits that accrue from creating something sharable” (Martinez & Stager, 2013). We know that it is hard to share meaningfully things that we have experienced deeply. If educators, or others, are to share the Maker Movement with their students or friends, we believe a full day Maker Day is a first step.
The Innovative Learning Center has created this must have resource for schools wanting to host immersive PD in makerspace and you can find out more in our Best of the Web section of this site! |
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Invent to LearnHailed as the "bible of makerspace", Invent to Learn is the go to resource for all educators. This book offers pedagogical background for the maker movement, project ideas, and resources to explore.
Even if you don't have access to expensive (but increasingly affordable) hardware, every classroom can become a makerspace where kids and teachers learn together through direct experience with an assortment of high and low-tech materials. The potential range, breadth, power, complexity and beauty of projects has never been greater thanks to the amazing new tools, materials, ingenuity and playfulness you will encounter in this book. In this practical guide, Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager provide K-12 educators with the how, why, and cool stuff that supports classroom making. The website is filled with tips, resources, ideas and ways to connect with other maker educators. Follow Gary and Sylvia on twitter @garystager @smartinez Gary also curates the Daily Papert, a site dedicated to the words and wisdom of Seymour Papert |
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Invent to Learn Guide to FunThe Invent To Learn Guide to Fun features an assortment of insanely clever classroom-tested “maker” projects learners of all ages. Josh Burker kicks classroom learning-by-making up a notch with step-by-step instructions, full-color photos, open-ended challenges, and sample code. Learn to paint with light, make your own “Operation Game,” sew interactive stuffed creatures, build "Rube Goldberg" machines, design artbots, produce mathematically generated mosaic tiles, program adventure games, and more!
Josh Burker has an amazing blog of musings! His maker mindset and innovative projects will serve as inspiration for your own maker adventures. Follow Josh on Twitter @joshburker |
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Maker Dadm As the editor in chief of MAKE magazine, Mark Frauenfelder has spent years combing through DIY books, but he's never been able to find one with geeky projects he can share with his two daughters. Maker Dad is the first DIY book to use cutting-edge (and affordable) technology in appealing projects for fathers and daughters to do together. These crafts and gadgets are both rewarding to make and delightful to play with. What's more, Maker Dad teaches girls lifelong skills, like computer programming
Mark has a blog with even more exciting maker projects and ideas! Follow Mark on Twitter @Frauenfelder |
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Worlds of MakingGet the nuts and bolts on imagining, planning, creating, and managing a cutting-edge makerspace for your school community. Nationally recognized expert Laura Fleming provides all the answers. From inception through implementation, you’ll find invaluable guidance for creating a vibrant makerspace on any budget.
Explore the Worlds of Making website and discover what a real life high school is doing in their makerspace. Follow Laura on Twitter @nmhs_lms |
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The Art of TinkeringBrought to you by the Exploratorium's Tinkering Studio, The Art of Tinkering is an unprecedented celebration of what it means to tinker: to take things apart, explore tools and materials, and build wondrous, wild art that’s part science and part technology. Join 150+ makers as they share the stories behind their beautiful and bold work and use this book to do some tinkering yourself.
The Exploratorium has a Tinkering site with an amazing collection of inspiration and ideas for makers! You can follow the Tinkering Studio on Twitter @TinkeringStudio |
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Tinkerlab: A Hands on Guide For Little Inventors55 playful experiments that encourage tinkering, curiosity, and creative thinking from the creator of Tinkerlab.com—hands-on activities that explore art, science, and more. For children two and up.
This book is about creative experiments, in all fields, that help kids explore the world. The Tinkerlab site is filled with an array of maker projects that even little makers can do! Step by step instructions, colour photos and more make this site a beautiful place to explore! You can follow TinkerLab and Rachelle Doorley on Instagram |
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The Maker CookbookThe Maker Movement is hot, and librarians are eager to participate. Even if you feel restricted by budget, staff, or space, this step-by-step guide will help you turn your library into a creativity centre.
The book is filled with maker activities, literature connections and material lists to turn any library or classroom into a makerspace! |
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3D Printing in the ClassroomThis book is an essential guide for educators interested in bringing the amazing world of 3D printing to their classrooms. Learn about the technology, exciting powerful new design software, and even advice for purchasing your first 3D printer. The real power of the book comes from a variety of teacher-tested, step-by-step classroom projects. Eighteen fun and challenging projects explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, along with forays into the visual arts and design.
You can follow David on Twitter @dthornburg |
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Connected CodeIn Connected Code, Yasmin Kafai and Quinn Burke argue that although computational thinking represents an excellent starting point, the broader conception of "computational participation" better captures the twenty-first-century reality. Computational participation moves beyond the individual to focus on wider social networks and a DIY culture of digital "making." Kafai and Burke describe contemporary examples of computational participation: students who code not for the sake of coding but to create games, stories, and animations to share; the emergence of youth programming communities; the practices and ethical challenges of remixing (rather than starting from scratch); and the move beyond stationary screens to programmable toys, tools, and textiles.
You can follow Yasmin on Twitter @katyaskit |
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The Third Teacher Created by an international team of architects and designers concerned about our failing education system, The Third Teacher explores the critical link between the school environment and how children learn. It offers 79 practical design ideas, both great and small, to guide reader’s efforts to improve our schools.
Visit http://www.thethirdteacher.com/ for more inspiration |
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Make SpaceBased on the work at the Stanford University d.school and its Environments Collaborative Initiative, Make Space is a tool that shows how space can be intentionally manipulated to ignite creativity. Appropriate for designers charged with creating new spaces or anyone interested in revamping an existing space, this guide offers novel and non-obvious strategies for changing surroundings specifically to enhance the ways in which teams and individuals communicate, work, play-- and innovate.
Stanford d.school is an amazing resource for design thinking in the maker movement. Their companion site for this book even has free template downloads. Visit http://dschool.stanford.edu/makespace/ for more information! Follow Stanford d.school on Twitter @stanforddschool |
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The Maker Movement ManifestoThe Maker Movement Manifesto takes you deep into the movement. Hatch describes the remarkable technologies and tools now accessible to you and shares stories of how ordinary people have devised extraordinary products, giving rise to successful new business ventures. He explains how economic upheavals are paving the way for individuals to create, innovate, make a fortune-- and even drive positive societal change-- with nothing more than their own creativity and some hard work.
Interested in becoming a maker and joining a vibrant community? Check out Tech Shop for ideas, resources and inspiration! http://www.techshop.ws/ To connect with even more makers, follow Tech Shop and Mark Hatch on Twitter @MarkHatch @TechShopSF Visit, and contribute to, our own working manifesto here. |
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The Educator as a Maker EducationThis ebook is a compilation of blog posts about maker education written by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. The chapters include theoretical ideas, informal research observations, ideas related to the educator as a maker educator, the maker education process, suggestions for implementation, some maker education learning activities, and reflecting on the making process. Graphics, infographics, and images support the chapter content.
Jackie Gerstein is a passionate educator who believes in student centered inquiry! Her blog is a wealth of resources, ideas and information. Follow Jackie on Twitter @jackiegerstein |
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Creating InnovatorsIn this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators.
For videos and more companion resources for the book, please visit the Creating Innovators website. |
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Creative SchoolsAt a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Robinson points the way forward. He argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system and proposes a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today’s unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and enable them to face the real challenges of the twenty-first century.
Be part of the educational transformation here. Follow Sir Ken Robinson on Twitter @SirKenRobinson |
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