The document outlines the concept and importance of makerspaces as creative environments for learning and innovation. It highlights key elements of a makerspace culture, such as curiosity, playfulness, and risk-taking, while providing a practical agenda for engagement and collaboration among participants. It emphasizes that the focus should be on the making process rather than just tools, fostering an open and inclusive learning experience.

1. Get ready!
Resources
http://coffeeforthebrain.com/makersession

3. www.coffeeforthebrain @coffeechugbooks
aarmau@gmail.com

4. Agenda
BUILD, PLAY, SHARE
● Introduction and Bio
● Six Questions On
Making
● Build, Play, Share
Cycle
● What’s Next?

5. Let’s Begin

6. We express who
we are through
what we make.

14. Not About The Tools
“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years
was not a particular gadget or tool but the
invention of the scientific process itself.”
Kevin Kelly

18. 6 Key Questions

19. What is a
makerspace?

20. “Makerspaces,
sometimes referred to as
hackerspaces,
hackspaces, and fables
are creative, diy spaces
where people can gather
to create, invent, and
learn.”
Ellyssa Kroski

23. “Makerspaces encourage
project based and cross
disciplinary learning, which
leads to the type of
innovation that both schools
and businesses should be
encouraging in today’s
economy.”
Robert Brown

24. Makerspaces
are not about
the tools;
they’re about
enabling
making.

25. Who is a
maker?

30. Where do you
put a
makerspace?

32. When do I
create a
makerspace?

34. How to create
a makerspace
culture?

36. Why create a
makerspace
culture?

37. If education were a business,
would it suffer the same fate as
Blockbuster, Sears, Kodak &
Borders?
@justintarte

38. Elements
of a
Makerspace
Culture
• Curious
• Playful
• Risk Takers
• Perspective
• Persistent
• Sharing

39. Curious

40. Playful

43. Be a RISK TAKER

44. Perspective

45. Persistent

47. Sharing

49. 1st grade question Sharing the journey of making

50. You make with
your mind and
form the idea
with your hands

51. “We don’t wait for
inspiration. We chase it
down with circuits and
coffee!”
Coffeechug Cafe

52. Talk < Action
BUILDING PLAYING SHARING

53. Learning is about
stuff that sticks

54. Open the bags
Explore the contents

55. The
Rules
1. Have fun!
2. Everybody Participates
3. No wrong answers - “go
with the flow”
4. Don’t have the answer?
Think with your hands!
5. Need at least 5 people at
your table!

56. Practice
Build
Open up your bag and
build a dog with 4
bricks.
Raise your dog in the air
when done.

57. Practice Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#gaetc16 @coffeechugbooks

58. Dog Examples
Maurer family test experiment

59. Did you
know….
6, 2x4 LEGO pieces can
assemble into 915,000,000+
possible combinations?

60. Go….
Find a
Minifig

61. Instructions
Add a few bricks to your
minifig and introduce
yourself to others at your
table.
● Who are you?
● Why did you come
to GaETC and/or
this session?

62. 1
Minute
Build

65. Practice Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#gaetc16 @coffeechugbooks

66. Body parts
of
homunculi
Hands are search engine
of the mind
Largest portion of cortex
areas of brain

67. Build together
● Work at your table to create
largest standing LEGO tower
● Minifig MUST be at top

69. Practice Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#gaetc16 @coffeechugbooks

71. Typical
Class
Typical
Meeting
Typical
PD

72. Lean In
● Co Owners of
the work
● You care
● You are
invested
● Naturally
happens

73. Break down
tower and
return
pieces
Grab 5 random pieces

74. Grab 5 pieces
Assemble in random arrangement

76. Symbols

78. Bricks Can Mean Anything!

79. Order of People
Clockwise starting with
person closest to the
screen
30 Seconds to explain
the topic given to you.

80. My object
represents
the coolest
classroom
because

81. My object
represents
the
students in
my
classroom
because

82. My object
represents my
favorite teacher
because

83. My object
represents
the culture
of my
building
because

84. My object
represents
learning
because

85. My object
represents
a great
leader
because

86. What did we
experience that
can benefit your
classroom?

87. Learning journey more
important than final product

88. Think about the following

89. What is the experience
you're trying to create?

90. What are the learning goals
and outcomes you want to
achieve in this space?

91. Who will lead the student
experience?

92. Will you provide students a
set curriculum or more open
ended projects?

93. What grade levels will your
space target?

94. How will students access
the space?

95. How will educators learn
how to get the most from
the makerspace?

96. How will you assess the
students on their projects?

97. Then you talk tools…..

99. “Everyone thinks of changing
the world, but no one thinks of
changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

102. Curious
Playful
Risk Takers
Perspective
Persistent
Sharing

103. Final Step
Hold yourself
accountable.
Write a letter to
yourself about
what you plan on
making by end of
November.

104. http://coffeeforthebrain.com/makersession
LISTEN TO THE MUSTN’TS
Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child,
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the SHOULDN’TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.