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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Makerspaces"”.
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Making Moves: Exploring Adaptability in Makerspaces
Adaptability is defined as having the capacity to be modified for a new use or purpose; the quality of being able to adjust to new conditions. Adaptability in a space can have many venues and effects depending on the intent of its flexibility. This thesis will explore several methods of …
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Makerspaces and academic advancement in Hamilton County secondary schools
… the researcher sought to quantify the effects of makerspaces on ACT composite scores, graduation rates, attendance rates, and chronic absenteeism. By employing a mixed-methods research design, the researcher analyzed publicly available school-level data from the Tennessee Department of Education …
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An exploration of artistic creation in makerspaces and youth identity
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand how engagement in the arts in maker sessions might contribute to healthy identity development for youth experiencing risk factors in a maker-settings. Youth utilized different maker and technology tools, as well as art mediums. Data …
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Black STEM Educators' Understanding of the Power in Makerspaces
… Informal STEM learning environments, such as makerspaces, serve as access points to industry-aligned STEM education for Black Americans, ultimately positioning them to increase their earning potential and social mobility by pursuing STEM careers. Due to academic achievement gaps, …
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The Impact of the Integration of Makerspaces and Making Activities Into Engineering Design Education
The increasing presence of makerspaces in university campuses is encouraging engineering educators to incorporate making activities and projects into their curriculum to support formal and informal learning, foster multidisciplinary learning environments, promote collaborative learning, and help …
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Making Makerspaces more accessible for people with visual impairment: Understanding user needs to reimagine solutions.
… a fundamental question - How Might We Make Makerspaces More Accessible to People with Visual Impairment? For this, I draw on examples from a series of interviews and workshops where I introduced hardware machines to blind hobbyists and guided assembly of a corn sheller pioneered at the MIT …
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Creating a maker course syllabus for the Learning Technologies program : bridging experiences between the UT Campus makerspace and K-12 makerspaces in Austin, Texas
… subsequently bridge those experiences to K-12 makerspaces in Austin. This report contains four major sections. First, the report begins with a literature review of makerspaces and learning, making and assessment, and making in both K-12 and higher education, supported by a review of empirical …
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Heike, Jike, Chuangke : creativity in Chinese technology community
… seeing how Chinese Chuangke teachers build makerspaces in their schools, engage with the Chuangke education ecosystem, nurture future makers in their makerspaces, and interpret the Maker Movement in Chinese context. This thesis views Chinese hacker culture, geek culture, and maker culture …
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Considerations in Building an Elementary Makerspace Lab
… and skills in STEM education is by incorporating makerspaces into schools. Makerspaces are physical spaces where people have opportunities to build and construct objects based on their own personal interests. Makerspaces foster the innovative ideas and skills students need upon graduation. This …
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Making space : pedagogical interventions to foster equity in introductory maker education
… that create more inclusive educational makerspaces. Education theorists and maker educators consistently express a need to support beginners, but the exact type of support differs. Some foster equity by choosing non-gendered introductory projects that can be easily modified for personal …
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Innovation districts : economic development, community benefits, and the public realm
… incubators, accelerators, coworking spaces, and makerspaces are not foreign to the commercial real estate market. However, when these relatively new product types collide with the idea of public space and community benefits, there is potential to create something unique. In the spirit of a …
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Exploring service development to scaffold cross-disciplinary critical maker-learning in a higher education academic library makerspace : a case study through the lens of cultural-historical activity theory
… tool for this and other academic library makerspaces. Lastly, to support this argument, I propose and explain my original cross-disciplinary maker-learning concept of ‘Critical Material Awareness’ as a theoretical model for maker-learning design in HE, developed from Matt Ratto’s (2014) …
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Minecraft í stærðfræðikennslu á yngsta stigi grunnskóla
… rannsóknar- og þróunarverkefninu MakEY eða Makerspaces in the early years: Enhancing digital literacy and creatitvity frá árunum 2016–2019 en á meðal meginmarkmiða þess er að efla rannsóknir og nýsköpun á sviði stafræns læsis og beina sjónum að sköpunarmætti barna (MakEY, 2019). Rannsóknin …
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Uncovering hidden pathways
… rising popularity of project-based learning and makerspaces in schools. What is missing from the conversation is a deeper understanding of who benefits. We celebrate the 4 P's of Creative Learning and the Maker Mindset, but the disproportionate rates of discipline in schools and data from the …
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I'm the Smart Kid: Adult Attitudes and Perceptions about Enrichment and Special Education
… creativity and flexibility of current graduates. Makerspaces and related technology education approaches have been increasingly implemented to offer students opportunities for developing these desired skills. Parallel to this effort, students who receive special education services but access the …
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The future of desktop 3D printing : what stands in the way and how the technology will advance
… 3D printers via qualified technologists in makerspaces and other educational settings. It will be crucial for lead users and manufacturers to focus on fostering the current enablers and implementing the potential enablers over the course of the next ten years in order for users to understand …
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Exploring the Open Source Hardware phenomenon: Empirical essays on the role of user communities in the creation of innovation, organizations and markets
… alternative spaces such as sponsoring/partnering makerspaces to reach out external collaborators. I use the liminality concept as a lens to shed light on how spaces can help to spark creativity and induce innovative behavior. I propose a conceptual framework that explains how firms craft spaces …
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The ethical issues of additive manufacturing
… from DIY hacker collectives like hackspaces, makerspaces, and FabLabs. The research investigates the ethical concerns of experts who are closely associated with such collectives to understand the types of issues they are concerned about. The study was also an attempt to understand the …
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Makerspace em bibliotecas escolares : uma análise bibliométrica
… literatura sobre as bibliotecas escolares e os makerspaces e, em seguida uma análise bibliométrica sobre o tema. Utilizando o software Publish or Perish analisam-se 979 artigos em língua inglesa e 108 artigos em língua portuguesa e língua espanhola. São analisadas informações sobre os principais …
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Impact of Introducing Technical Design Elements in Makerspace Trainings
Makerspaces are used as a tool in higher education to support curricular, hands-on projects and encourage student extracurricular and personal projects. Because access to making is more self-driven, there is a gap between what makerspace trainings teach students and what students are expected to …
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