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Maker Movement Spreads Innovation One Project at a Time
Kylie Peppler,Sophia Bender +1 more
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Lessons learned from the grassroots spreading of the "maker movement" can help us reimagine schools and foster a mindset of creativity and innovation in educational settings as mentioned in this paper, and we can use these lessons in our own schools.Abstract:
Lessons learned from the grassroots spreading of the “maker movement” can help us reimagine schools and foster a mindset of creativity and innovation in educational settings.read more
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Making at Home: Interest-Driven Practices and Supportive Relationships in Minoritized Homes
TL;DR: For instance, the authors analyzed survey responses of 52 minoritized youth from an urban, under-resourced community in Chicago and conducted an inductive thematic analysis of 20 interviews through a model of connected learning, finding that these youth participated in a diverse range of interest-driven, low-tech maker activities in their own homes more often than in school, after school programs, or through online resources and communities.
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Making the Invisible Visible: A New Method for Capturing Student Development in Makerspaces.
TL;DR: A new kind of assessment developed to capture students’ learning in makerspaces is introduced and evidence that the students�’ behavior became more similar to experts’ after participating in a maker workshop is found.
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Developing Pre-service Teachers Conceptualization of STEM and STEM Pedagogical Practices
Fatlume Berisha,Eda Vula +1 more
TL;DR: This article presented a STEM integrated collaborative activity to enhance STEM knowledge among pre-service mathematics and chemistry teachers, which had a positive effect on teachers' conceptualization of STEM through collaborative, participatory practices, an effective learning environment while bringing attention to teacher professional development and education policymakers.
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Teaching Severe Weather: Examining Teacher Candidates’ Early Field Experience in a Makerspace Environment:
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study examines first-year teacher candidates early field experience designing and implementing maker workshops for an after-school program, where the maker workshops were offered as part of a teacher education program.
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Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
TL;DR: Anderson as mentioned in this paper explains how such technologies such as 3D printing and electronics assembly are becoming available to everybody, and how people are building successful businesses as a result, whereas once every aspiring entrepreneur needed the support of a major manufacturer, now anybody with a smart idea and a little expertise can make their ideas a reality.
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FAB: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication
TL;DR: The next big thing in personal fabrication is personal fabrication as mentioned in this paper, the ability to design and produce your own products, in your own home, with a machine that combines consumer electronics and industrial tools.
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The Maker Mindset
TL;DR: The Maker Movement continues to gain momentum as discussed by the authors and we can see the growth of maker communities online as well as the development of physical community workspaces, called makerspaces, and the spread of Maker Faires around the world.