Friday, April 15
9:00 AM-11:00 AM
PDT
Tidepool 5

Designing an Educational Makerspace

Workshop (Live Virtual) ID: 59508
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    Daniel A. Tillman
    The University of Texas at El Paso

Abstract: This workshop is for anyone interested in designing an educational makerspace, or helping someone else design an educational makerspace. The workshop content will cover all necessary fundamentals for absolute beginners while also offering more advanced tips for advanced makerspace users. The fundamental principles and practices needed for successfully designing an educational makerspace are available to anyone willing to invest the time and focus. Please join us in spreading educational makerspaces as an effective instructional strategy worth further attention. The workshop will close with an Open House Q&A discussion with the participants and workshop leader, Dr. Daniel Tillman, who recently received a $1,617,000 grant from Texas Educational Agency to assist Ysleta Independent School District develop a network of six makerspaces to serve low-functioning schools.

Objectives

The main objectives for this workshop are to: 1. Support anyone interested in designing an educational makerspace, or helping someone else design an educational makerspace. 2. Cover all necessary fundamentals for absolute beginners while also offering more advanced tips for advanced makerspace users. 3. Demonstrate that the fundamental principles and practices needed for successfully designing an educational makerspace are available to anyone willing to invest the time and focus. 4. Help makerspace educators to spread the concept of educational makerspaces as an effective instructional strategy worth further attention. 5. Close by hosing an Open House Q&A discussion with the participants and workshop leader, who recently received a $1,617,000 grant from Texas Educational Agency to assist Ysleta Independent School District develop a network of six makerspaces to serve low-functioning schools.

Topical Outline

1. Introduction to Makerspaces 2. Maker Activities: Literacy & Biliteracy 3. Maker Activities: Art-Math 4. Maker Activities: Recycling-Science 5. Maker Activities: STEM+ 6. Choosing a Type of Makerspace 7. Museum-style Makerspace 8. Arts/crafts-style Makerspace 9. Laboratory-style Makerspace 10. Inventors-style Makerspace 11. Why choose a theme for your Makerspace 12. Planning of initial activities within makerspace type & theme [breakout groups] 13. Designing Makerspaces: Literacy & Biliteracy 14. Designing Makerspaces: Math & Science 15. Closing Activities & Planning Next Steps 16. Open-House with Q&A

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for attending this workshop.

Experience Level

Beginner

Qualifications

This workshop, which will cover the fundamental principles and practices needed for designing an educational makerspace, will be led by Dr. -------------, who recently received a $1,617,000 grant from Texas Educational Agency (TEA) to assist Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso develop a network of six makerspaces for serving low-functioning schools; prior to this grant award, Dr. ------- was tenured as an Associate Professor in Educational Technology at The University of Texas, where he currently serves as Vice President of the Faculty Senate. Dr. ------- completed his Ph.D. in 2012 at The University of Virginia under the expert guidance of Dr. Glen Bull, a co-founder of SITE, where together (and funded by an NSF ITEST) they performed some of the earliest research addressing how to best use makerspaces in elementary STEM education, and which resulted in Dr. -------’s dissertation: Digital fabrication as an instructional technology for supporting upper elementary and middle school science and mathematics education.

Topics

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