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Maker-Centered Learning (Introduction (What is Maker-Centered Learning?…
Maker-Centered Learning
Introduction
What is Maker-Centered Learning?
Creatve and innovative hands on learning
Environments
Traditional classroom
Public schools
Private schools
Charter schools
Afterschool programs
Museums
Libraries
Kitchen tables
What is a maker?
Someone who engages in the act of making
Baker
Sculptor
Artist
Benefits
Helping students develop angency
Building character
Developing a sensitivity to design
Outcome of quiet exploration
Students understand
They learn they way they see something is different than the way others see it
Growing culture of consumerism
Contributing factors
Functional inaccessibility of contemporary gadgets
Growing acceptance of life within a throwaway culture
Consumers are encouraged to replace their devices rather than fix them
Products have become less fixable
Imagine what you’d learn if you tried to fix a broke object
A framework for maker empowerment
Looking closely
Close, careful, and mindful observation
Requires sustained time
Exploring complexity
Finding opportunity
Seeing potential for building, tinkering, or redesigning
Builde on looking closely and exploring conplexity
Can start with exploration of materials
Exploration of user needs and available resources