The beautiful part of the Maker Movement is that it is not confined to one aspect of learning. It requires skills from every part of learning, particularly in numeracy and literacy. The Maker Movement can engage students and complete learning outcomes in an innovative and creative way. 

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Why Making Matters for learning: 

• "Making is innovative and resourceful.

• Makers build off the ideas of others and choose the best tools for the job.

• Makers take risks and iterate from “failures” to achieve success. 

• Makers collaborate and give advice and guidance to their peers."                                             

Some ways in which the Maker Movement hopes to move into education:

• "Building a new body of practice in teaching making - and a corps of practitioners to follow it.

• Identifying, developing and sharing a broad framework of projects and kits based on a wide range of tools and materials that connect to students interests in and out of school.

• Designing and hosting online social platforms for the collaboration among students, teachers, and the community. 

• Developing programs especially for young people that allow them to take a leading role in creating more Makers. 

• Developing educational contexts that link the practice of making to formal concepts and theory, to support discovery and exploration while introducing new tools for advanced design and new ways of thinking about making. (Practically, this means developing guides for teachers, mentors and other leaders)." 

Points taken from: Youth Makerspace Playbook
Maker Ed Staff. (2015). Youth Makerspace Playbook. San Francisco: Maker Education Initiative
http://makered.org/makerspaces/

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Maker Movement means documenting:

A key part to the Maker Movement is being able to share your creation and educate others about your process. Documenting via a logbook, writing procedures, telling stories is a great way to teach students the value of prior planning and teach them the ability to clearly articulate their ideas and thoughts. 

 

The Maker Movement in schools: