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What's a makerspace for?: Investigating the integration of makerspaces into schools and communities

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Fabio Campos,

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FabLearn Europe'18: Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education

Pages 106 - 107

https://doi.org/10.1145/3213818.3213837

Published: 18 June 2018 Publication History

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This poster describes and analyses a series of Makerspace observations and interviews, conducted in four public middle schools in East Palo Alto, California, USA. Our research team used Critical Pedagogy and Sociocultural Theories as frameworks for interpreting data. Focusing primarily on cultural aspects, we summarize four uses of Makerspaces and five tensions that result from their inception in schools. The poster includes practical recommendations for implementing and integrating Maker curricula to local communities and formal learning settings.

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What's a makerspace for?: Investigating the integration of makerspaces into schools and communities
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Informal education
      2. K-12 education

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FabLearn Europe'18: Proceedings of the Conference on Creativity and Making in Education

June 2018

126 pages

ISBN:9781450353717

DOI:10.1145/3213818

Conference Chairs:
Michail Giannakos
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Monica Divitini
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Letizia Jaccheri
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
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Ole Sejer Iversen
Aarhus University, Denmark

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Nikou S(2023)Student motivation and engagement in maker activities under the lens of the Activity Theory: a case study in a primary schoolJournal of Computers in Education10.1007/s40692-023-00258-y11:2(347-365)Online publication date: 20-Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-023-00258-y
Hartikainen HCortés Orduña MKäsmä MSánchez Milara IVentä-Olkkonen L(2021)Make4Change: Empowering Unemployed Youth through Digital FabricationFabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 - An International Conference on Computing, Design and Making in Education10.1145/3466725.3466763(1-5)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3466725.3466763
Konstantinou DParmaxi AZaphiris P(2021)Mapping research directions on makerspaces in educationEducational Media International10.1080/09523987.2021.1976826(1-25)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/09523987.2021.1976826

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