This document discusses the history and principles of maker education. It outlines how maker education began in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the development of makerspaces, Fab Labs, and the first Maker Faire. The key principles of maker education are described as learning through construction, allowing creative failure, using both digital and physical tools, self-organized and peer learning, and working with adults on the same level. Examples are given of MakerDays events for children held in Austria that involve various making stations and have led to student-created digital products and improvements in self-efficacy and creativity. The document advocates for bringing maker education approaches into primary school teacher training and other adult education programs.

1. Maker Education –
just MAKE it!
Martin Ebner
(Sandra Schön & Maria Grandl)
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4. Do you know the Red Flag Acts?

5. https://www.flickr.com/photos/hur/174497674

6. The most draconic restrictions and speed
limits were imposed by the 1865 act (the "Red
Flag Act"), which required all road
locomotives, which included automobiles, to
travel at a maximum of 4 mph (6.4 km/h) in the
country and 2 mph (3.2 km/h) in the city, as
well as requiring a man carrying a red flag to
walk in front of road vehicles hauling multiple
wagons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts

7. Infrastructure
Rules,
specifications,
instructions
Teachers
Mobility
Autonomous
driving
Life without no
more possible

8. Digital Technologies are
much more complex

9. In the age of artificial intelligence, robots,
virtual reality, autonomous driving, even
virtual sex and exploding (digital)
applications, so called digital-mature and
-responsible citizens are needed.
Digitale Mündigkeit
Bildungskonzil Heldenberg (2017)

10. L3T’s make it
Maker Education

11. Some Milestones
of Maker Movement
1998
university course „How to
Make (Almost) Anything“
2000 2010
2006
TechShop, the first makerspace
and the first MAKER faire
2014
first Maker faire
in the White House, U.S.A.
2009
first hackerspace
2005
Magazine MAKE - first issue
2002
first fablab

12. Ancestors, Roots
and Influencers
of Making in Education
20th century reformist and progressive educators,
which favor physical materials and experiences in education
- e.g. Maria Montessori, Célestin Freinet, John Dewey
since 1960ies
constructionism by
Papert, his ideas
and colleagues
1990ies
educational policies
featuring creativity,
innovation, and STEM
since 2000ies
development of tools
development of fablabs,
1980ies constructional
and digital educational
gadgets und tools

13. Maker Tools in Education
apps
hardware
(Arduino, Rasperry Pi,
Makey Makey)
robotics
(including drones)
3D Printer programming
analog devices
and tools

14. real tools
inexpensive
modern
flexible
facilitator
enabler
co-creator
varied job
constructionist
creative inventor
developing competencies
active learner
sense of achievement
Reasons
for Making
in Education

15. Creative (digital) work

16. Principles of Maker Education
Learning through construction

17. result: a concrete
product
Principles of Maker Education

18. Creative - failure
allowed
Principles of Maker Education

19. also digital
tools
Principles of Maker Education

20. self-organised
learning &
peer learning
Principles of Maker Education

21. with adults on the
same level
Principles of Maker Education

22. inter-
disciplinary
Principles of Maker Education

23. improve the
world
Principles of Maker Education

24. MakerDays for Kids
Maker Education for large groups
open work/free work
interdisciplinary
collaborative learning
low-threshold
gender-sensitive
u.a. nachzulesen in
Schön, Ebner & Narr (2016): Making-Aktivitäten mit Kindern und Jugendlichen. Handbuch zum kreativen
digitalen Gestalten.
Schön, Ebner & Reip (2016): Kreative digitale Arbeit mit Kindern in einer viertägigen offenen Werkstatt.
URL: https://www.medienimpulse.at/articles/view/829

25. MakerDays for Kids
Die MAKER DAYS for kids were first held
in Bad Reichenhall (GER) in 2015.
Das Konzept der MAKER DAYS for kids was awarded
as innovative media pedagogy implementation with the
„Dieter Baacke-Preis“.
MOOC „Making“ – Creative digital design with children
on the iMooX.at platform

26. MakerDays for Kids
2018 - 2021 @
TU Graz

28. MakerDays for Kids
ca. 260m2
with more than
15 Stationen

29. digital fabrication / modeling corner
3D-printer, Vinyl Cutter

30. digital fabrication / modeling corner

31. soldering area

32. robotic club
Ozobots &
Thymio

33. coding club / physical computing
BBC micro:bit,
Calliope mini &
MakeyMakey

34. manufacturing
Turtle stich :-)
programable sewing
machine

35. tinkering

36. media lab
Innovative
technologies

37. media lab
Cardboard, light-
painting

38. Idea Lounge

39. LEGO-town
Our city is being:
- built
- mobile
- child-friendly
- environmentally
friendly

40. LEGO-town

42. Some results

43. participants

44. STEAM education needs
young academics

45. STEAM education needs
young women academics

46. products
A total of 126 workshops (14% by peers) were
held and 468 (digital) "products" were created.
This means that one participant achieved an
average of 4.3 results during the
MAKER DAYS.

47. effects on self-efficacy & creativity
Quelle: CC BY 4.0 DOIT – http://DOIT-Europe.net, H2020-770063 - DOIT-Handbuch: https://
www.researchgate.net/publication/352573088_Making_Social_Innovators_--
_Designs_fur_und_mit_jungen_sozialen_Innovatorinnen_von_6_bis_16
https://zenodo.org/record/4065516
self-efficacy creativity

48. … how it is going on?

49. … we are also bringing it to the
curriculum for teacher candidates

50. Curriculum for primary school teachers
compulsory for all with main topic media (region Styria)
https://phst.at/fileadmin/user_upload/09072015_Bachelor_Verbund_final.pdf

51. school subject „Handworking“
compulsory for about 25% in Austria (region Styria)

52. Institute of Industrial Management and Innovation Research - Prof. Christian Ramsauer I
new space to foster product innovation for
students, startups and partner companies
+ 800 m²
Slides by Mathias Friessnig

53. Institute of Industrial Management and Innovation Research - Prof. Christian Ramsauer IBL
5
Floor layout and functions to enforcing innovation across
Makers, Industry and Research
§ FabLab Graz will transform to a product development hub for students, startups and 15
industrial partners
§ Strategies and new methods to increase cooperation between Makers, Industry and
Research are developed and applied within a bmwfw research project.
Communication
Kitchen, coffee,
sofas, brainstorming
Reception
Lockers Multifunction
Co-working, stage, video
wall, 3D printers, assembly
room, lecture room, tools
Research zone Meeting rooms
Dust Room
- laser cutters,
CNC milling, tools
Clean Room
- electronics, 3D
printing, vinyl cutter/
printer
Prototyping (FabLab)
Administration, login
Slides by Mathias Friessnig

54. … and finally we are
bringing Maker
Education to adults
(teachers)

55. https://imoox.at/course/pcode2018
Learning to code (PocketCode)

56. https://imoox.at/course/doit
Making Young Social Innovators

57. https://imoox.at/course/microbitSchulbuch
Computational Thinking

58. Digital literacy is defined as understanding
and using digital technologies to shape the
everyday life of tomorrow.
Forderung Bildungskonzil Heldenberg (2017)

60. Graz University of Technology
EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
Graz University
of Technology
Martin Ebner
(Bildungsinformatiker)
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martin.ebner@tugraz.at
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