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Learning Ideas: Making Classroom Equipment
One of the sub-goals of Makerspace is to connect concrete projects to the more abstract worlds of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Back in the 1950s/60s MIT physicist Jerrold...
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Mentoring Girls to Make: Lessons from Techbridge
Lyn Gomes, mechanical engineer and avid Maker, discusses how a hairdryer works with students in a Techbridge after-school program. Today we share a post by Linda Kekelis of Techbridge. Techbridge role...
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Learning Ideas: Cheap circuits and subsystems
This is the third post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace. Learning Idea #3: Circuits made with cheap or reconfigurable components Electronics is a large part of Maker culture, but it...
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Student Designer How-To Kit from Business Innovation Factory
The Business Innovation Factory’s Students Design For School (SD4S) Lab was approached by the Rhode Island Department of Education about adapting their approach of “student-led design” for a younger...
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Learning Ideas: Design options, cross-referencing, cohesion
This is the fourth and final post in a series about ideas for learning in a Makerspace. Learning Idea: Explore design options. Another UK idea is to make design options visible to students through...
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Report: Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design
A picture from the Connected Learning report: A team explains its Rube Goldberg machine at the Boss Level Finale. Digital Media and Learning Research Hub recently released its 99-page report,...
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Repost: How to Learn Almost Anything, Open MIT Online Class
Mitchel Resnick just announced that he’ll be teaching a course anyone can take! If you don’t already know him, Mitchel directs the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group, designed the...
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Staying safe in makerspaces
At the “How to Make a Makerspace” workshop in Somerville, Massachusetts this past weekend, one of the common themes, among many, that emerged in discussions was “safety”. In his keynote, Dale...
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Reflections on our first few months
With the start of the academic school year in late summer 2012, we focused our efforts on learning from and working with our 15 high schools in the MENTOR Makerspace pilot program. These schools...
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The Real Work Behind Invisible Progress
Editor’s note: Aaron Vanderwerff, high school science, robotics, and makerspace teacher extraordinaire, writes about his students’ independent projects (and their visible or invisible progress) during...
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