Here at InSync, we have made this makerspace movement a part of our learning campaigns, and we encourage you to do the same! Let’s make some praxis happen! The best way to activate your classroom is for your classroom to make something.” In active classrooms one will find engaged students, often working on multiple projects simultaneously, and teachers unafraid of relinquishing their authoritarian role. In the book, Invent to Learn, Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager write: Conversation: How will you continue the conversation and continue to engage the community?.Showcase: Where will you showcase the makerspace products?.Safety: What precautions can you put in place at each stage of the making process to allow learners to safely fail, iterate, re-make, and innovate?.Collaboration: What opportunities will learners have to collaborate?.Guidance: What expertise needs to be on hand to help the learners?.Resources: What tools and parts will they need to “make” their designs happen?.Process: What steps do they need to take in order to meet the challenge?.Challenge: What do you want your learners to walk away with?.Here’s are a few questions you’ll need to answer when creating a modern learning makerspace: This is how, and why failure is okay – nobody gets hurt! Failure can result in iteration, and iteration can result in innovation.
Most makerspaces that serve the DIY and builder movements put safety first. Many of us learn best by doing, and we need more spaces in our work where we have opportunities to try, and maybe even fail. We need more spaces (in-person and virtual) where we can do just that. The makerspace is not just about making – it’s about sharing, modifying, iterating, failing, and re-making.
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Learners would access templates, share ideas about how to best communicate industry impact, and take away associated resources to share with their teams. In this example, a modern learning makerspace could be all about walking learners through, step-by-step, how to make that presentation. Where do you get started? How do you know you’re on the right track? For example, you might need to make a presentation to management on the state of the industry and how it impacts your organization. The modern learning makerspace provides resources that learners can use to complete a project, and experts to help guide learner progress in the space. The idea is to create design spaces where we can envision, prototype, and create blended learning design, development, and delivery solutions. In modern blended learning, we can create makerspaces (in-person and virtual) to involve our learners in praxis. All of these events were about making things and learning through hands-on design. I have participated in dozens of makerspaces, where I created small toys, robotic spiders, radios, mini-computers, video tutorials, and even a complete eLearning module. It’s about creating your own work, which can then be shared and improved upon. The makerspace movement is part of the DIY (Do It Yourself) culture, which promotes doing and making things yourself that you would normally rely on someone else doing or making. The makerspace movement was made (pun intended) for me. I love creating and making learning come together. I love the creative process just as much as the assembly process. We use what we consider, know, and know how to do, to make learning happen.
And, the word is said to have derived from the Greek word for “doing”.Īpplying theory, knowledge, or skills to practice is what we all aim to do, as modern blended learning practitioners. Definitions include examples of practice, and application of knowledge or skills. To me, the essence of the word, is application – the application of theory to practice. I have been seeing the word “praxis” a lot these days, associated with a few different definitions.
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