What is Makerspace

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A place where people with shared interests can gather to create, invent, tinker, explore, imagine, and discover while sharing ideas, knowledge, equipment, tools, and materials. Learn more in: Effect of the Collaboration Between MakerSpace, University, and Elementary Schools on Student STEM Attitudes: Bringing the Maker Movement to Elementary Schools

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A space where people gather to make, create, and invent physical and/or digital objects. Learn more in: Makerspaces and 3D Printing: A Learning-by-Doing Professional Development Model for Preservice and Inservice Teachers

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Refers to the place where the making happens. A makerspace can be a garage, a room in a museum, library, or school. Learn more in: Making Success: Researching a School District's Integration of the Maker Movement Into Its Middle and High School

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A makerspace is typically a shared workspace where individuals fabricate objects. Athough these spaces often include digital fabrication tools like 3D printers and laser cutters, hand tools, and repurposed materials are also prominent. Makerspaces promote rapid cycles of design, fabrication, and user testing. Learn more in: Measuring Electrodermal Activity in an Afterschool Maker Program to Detect Youth Engagement

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Open-access laboratory space equipped with technological and other tools to create. Learn more in: Girls and 3D Printing: Considering the Content, Context, and Child

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A place and a mindset where individuals connect and collaborate to innovate new ideas by sharing tools, technologies, and expertise. Learn more in: Using Design Thinking Practices to Create Technology-Driven Adult Professional Development Programs

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A hands-on learning space in which students can design, create and invent with engineering and science as a foundation. Learn more in: Learning Environments: Physical Classrooms or Virtual Worlds

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Space that democratizes the design, prototyping, and creation of objects through shared equipment. Learn more in: Providing an Environment for Authentic Learning Experiences

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A place where people who are members of the Maker community have access to tools and resources. Learn more in: Employing 3D Printing to Fabricate Augmented Reality Headsets for Middle School STEM Education

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A physical or virtual space of activity in which individuals collaborate to explore and solve problems. Learn more in: Makerspaces: Materializing, Digitizing, and Transforming Learning

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A constructivist space where participants interact with resources and each other to brainstorm, strategize and create solutions to challenges presented to the group. Quite often, these spaces feature specific technology used to support the prototyping of objects that support the formulation of effective practices and applicable interventions for the aforementioned challenges. Learn more in: Technology-Enhanced Exploratory Installations to Support Constructivist Professional Development: The Technology Test Kitchen