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Makerspaces in libraries. why?
The document discusses the role of makerspaces in libraries as a modern solution to outdated educational models. It highlights the need for collaboration and active learning environments that foster innovation and entrepreneurship. The author questions how libraries can adapt to create spaces for discovery and learning.
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Makerspaces in libraries. why?
- 1. Makerspaces in Libraries.Why? Tod Colegrove, Ph.D., MSLIS Head of DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library University of Nevada, Reno Preconference workshop, Internet Librarian 2015 Slides at: http://bit.ly/1POOt0Z
- 3. 19th-Century Model EducationSystem: relic of the Industrial Age?
- 7. We can dobetter.
- 9. Where can thatsort of collaboration and active learning happen?
- 10. A place wherelearning, innovation, entrepreneurship and discovery are natural outcomes?
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Makerspaces, Idea Labs & Hackerspaces. Why in libraries?
- #3 Mark Twain – 19th century author and Nevada’s first Assistant Secretary of State thoughts on schooling and education Image credit: http://www.anonymousartofrevolution.com/2013/01/i-have-never-let-my-schooling-interfere.html
- #4 Image credit: Bridgewater foundary, Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bridgewater_foundary.gif
- #5 The Industrial Age needed workers who could read/write and follow instructions Image credit: Toronto Public Library, retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/43021516@N06/4210654981
- #6 Rather than education, schooling. Repeated procedures. Insert tab A into slot B. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons, retrived from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Doffers_in_Cherryville_Mfg._Co.%2C_N.C._Plenty_of_others._Cherryville%2C_N.C._-_NARA_-_523108.jpg
- #7 Schools operate similarly to factories: down to the bells at these schools were modeled on the shift-time sounds in factories. Image Credit:Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F038788-0020,_Wolfsburg,_VW_Autowerk,_Käfer.jpg
- #8 What type of workers does today’s society need? Image credit: Wikimedia Commons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/KUKA_Industrial_Robots_IR.jpg
- #9 If we’re truly serious about enabling and supporting lifelong learning, we need to embrace the realities of active learning & student performance. Where does the old model leave off? What they read? What they hear? Image credit: http://cms.commercialfurnituregroup.com/docs/4038.pdf
- #12 Enter “makerspace” – in libraries and museums across the country, spaces emerging that enable you to go hands-on with your ideas 3rd place that isn’t home, isn’t work… Image credit: http://cdn.makezine.com/uploads/2012/01/makerspace-logo.png
- #13 Consider: Libraries have the most space, hours aspirational - we want to help everyone already pulling in from across communities kitchen/house party (if the campus is a house party, the library can be the kitchen) the library brand is all about learning Image credit: http://www.rgj.com/story/money/reno-rebirth/2014/07/18/unr-library-one-americas-interesting/12870377/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin= Image credit: City of Reno, http://cityofreno.tumblr.com/post/93315059068/make-magazine-names-delamare-science-engineering
- #14 Backlash against growing digital isolation… collaborative “maker” movement “Makerspaces share some aspect of the shop class, home economics class, the art studio and science lab. In effect, a makerspace is a physical mashup of these different places that allows projects to integrate these different kinds of skills.”
- #17 Arduino Day! ~250 students + faculty + staff
- #18 Makey Makey kits – reference librarian at Minsk Regional Public Library/InfoUSA
- #33 From idea to production. Bring it home. Image credit: http://cms.commercialfurnituregroup.com/docs/4038.pdf
- #34 Image credit: http://genius.com/2972302