The Maker Movement: Democratizing STEM Education and Empowering Learners to Shape Their World

Scaffolding of Learning in Library Makerspaces

“…Lastly, we find that the library makerspace practitioners engage in formal education and experience this engagement as a novel task. Without educational training they are challenged when faced with planning and conducting teaching sessions [4], with aligning maker activities with formal educational curriculums [4,17], and with finding the time necessary for preparations [26]. In our interviews, we found that the division of labor between teacher and library makerspace practitioner is not clear.…”

“…Though there may be considerable room for student projects, temporal boundaries and instructional design contribute to structuring the formal activities. Several studies point to tensions between, on the one hand, curriculum planning and learning goals and, on the other hand, the interdisciplinary and exploratory aspects of learning in a makerspace [4,17]. However, curriculum planning and learning objectives scaffold learning in ways that help clarify to the students what and how to do.…”

School Technology Leadership and The Maker Movement

“…Making is a multi-dimensional -with its both individual and activity phase -notion. On the one hand making can also be associated with activities that may also be designed for the purpose of learning goals (Harron & Hughes, 2018) on the other hand it helps learners to shape their lives (Lindstrom, Thompson & Schmidt-Crawford, 2017). Making of which human takes place at the core (Hira & Hynes, 2018) is connected to constructivist philosophies and educational ideas (Halverson & Sheridan, 2014;Harron & Hughes, 2018).…”

“…The maker movement which developed in out of educational institutions (Dougherty, 2012;Harron & Hughes, 2018;Lindstrom et al, 2017;Martin, 2015) has been embodied in the culture of school (Halverson & Sheridan, 2014) and combined the formal and informal learning processes (Vossoughi & Bevan, 2014). It has required reimagining school and fostered a mindset of creativity and innovation in educational settings (Peppler & Bender, 2013).…”

“…It supports learners to have a sense of self and helps them to shape their lives. (Lindstrom et al, 2017). Makerspace in which makers are quite free about the activities to be done (Martin, 2015) is the place where participants' hobbies are reflected through the tools and projects (Harron & Hughes, 2018).…”