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This is What a Makerspace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective
The document explores the concept and characteristics of makerspaces, highlighting their differences from traditional library learning commons. It emphasizes collaboration, creativity, and community engagement in transforming the library's role to support active learning and making. The text includes various perspectives from librarians and students on how makerspaces positively affect the educational environment.
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- 1. This Is Whata MakerSpace Looks Like: A Visual Perspective Heather Moorefield-Lang University of SC School of Library and Information Science
- 4. How are TheyDifferent From Library Learning Commons?
- 5. • Collaborating, participating, helping •Authentic and engaging inquiry and knowledge building • Playing, creating, tinkering, building, making • Demonstrating respect in both physical and digital space • Experimenting, sharing, performing • Producing, doing, constructing • Connecting, accessing, self monitoring (Loertscher & Koechlin, 2014)Maker Workshop, University of SC
- 6. Tools Inventive Spirit Problem Solving Experimentation Creativity It’susing the Learning Commons in another way or taking it further. David Loertscher
- 7. Types of Maker“Spaces”
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- 42. It’s a questionof does information go to your library to die or does it go there to take on new life? And if you maintain a traditional library, you're an archivist and that is where information goes to die and that's sad.
- 43. Librarians are collectorsin their most traditional role so they just want to collect the right stuff and hope that the outcomes come with it. We need to realize there is a lot of making already so meeting the community with what they need is incredibly important.
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- 45. The first timewe had the maker ability within the library and it sort of trickled out throughout the school… It didn't just change the library it changed the mentality of the whole school it seemed. Instead of saying we can't do that because we don't know how, it’s we can do that, how can we figure out how to do it.
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- 47. If you wereto consider the whole library as a maker space, I'd say it's really different than pretty much any other library that I've pretty much ever seen because it seems like it's more free and not really the 'shhhhhh' thing that's in most libraries.
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