Monthly Archives: January 2016

What are makerspaces?

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There is no need to reinvent the wheel!

MakerLabs is a 26,000 square foot makerspace in Vancouver that provides you with the tools, space, and skills to make almost anything.

Maker Mobile is a travelling classroom, hackspace, workshop, art studio, and laboratory on wheels.

The Tiny Community Centre is the world’s smallest mobile classroom, artist residency, and curiosity cabinet! Built using waste and recycled materials, the Centre provokes visitors to examine the waste generated in their own lives and consider how it can be re-purposed to create positive social change.

Vancouver Hive Learning Pop-Up This annual event is a celebration of hands-on digital literacy and an opportunity to learn about the city’s various learning pathways. The pop-up makerspace is a creativity-inspiring experience for makers of all ages.

Vancouver Public Library’s Inspiration Lab is dedicated to digital creativity, collaboration, and storytelling. It offers sound studios, high-performance computers, video editing, self-publishing software, and thousands
of online video tutorials on design, video, photography, production, and more.

Instructables is an online makerspace where you can make & share EVERYTHING: technology, workshop, craft, home, food, play, outside, costumes <Spectrum LED> <toddie123>

Why do makerspaces matter?

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Fleming, L. (2015). Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

What are the dilemmas of maker culture?

What are the ethical dilemmas and moral questions raised by the rise of maker culture? Is our current moral and ethical framework compatible with the maker movement? Are we developing a moral and ethical framework as quickly as our technological capacities are evolving?

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The maker education movement

All children deserve opportunities to be the creators of the technologies that create our world, as well as to take part in changing who controls, leads, and owns our future.

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“Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other” Paulo Freire

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The art of making

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FEELING BEWILDERED?
Embrace the Uncertainty
Curiosity is Encouraged
Slow Down & Be Mindful
Collaboration Makes it Happen!