Listen and learn: Ed talk 
Recorded Session
Purpose: To equip librarians and other educators with program ideas, strategies and resources to help them create makerspaces and maker programming that empowers student voice and supports SEL.
Objectives:
1. Attendees will understand how makerspaces can be created in a way that supports student voice and choice.
2. Attendees will gain ideas for programming including passive programming, design challenges, open exploration and student created programming.
3. Attendees will learn ways to use classroom collaborations to build student familiarity and comfort with makerspace resources.
4. Attendees will learn strategies for creating makerspaces that are supportive of neurodiversity and SEL.
Introduction (5 minutes)
An introduction to the Tampa Prep makerspace and the Stewart Makerspace, the two schools that I have worked at. I'll explain how each space was started and what the process was like.
How to Amplify Student Voice (15 minutes)
- Student Makerspace Planning Team
- Open Exploration
- Supporting creative expression
- Organization of your makerspace to support student independence
- Maker Fairs and Fests
- Finding an authentic audience for student projects
- Collaboration in the makerspace
Design Challenges (10 minutes)
- Creating a design challenge that empowers student voice
- Examples:
- Cardboard challenge
- Paper Circuits
- Circuit Bracelets
- Best practices for design challenges
- How to Create a Design Prompt
Classroom connections (10 minutes)
- Reimagining 6th grade science
- Lab safety device challenge
- Earthquake structure challenge
- Weather device challenge
- Building student familiarity with our makerspace resources
Social Emotional Learning in the Makerspace (15 minutes)
- Designing community building spaces, such as whiteboard walls and LEGO walls
- Creating an environment that encourages collaboration
- Make space for play
- Design the makerspace as a calming space
- Keeps supplies open and accessible
- Allow time and space for personal projects and drop-ins
- Make the makerspace available for classroom projects
Q&A time (5 minutes)
Rendina, Diana. Reimagining Library Spaces: Transform Your Space on Any Budget. Portland, OR: International Society for Technology in Education, 2017.
Graves, Colleen, Aaron Graves and Diana Rendina. Challenge Based Learning in the School Library Makerspace; Libraries Unlimited, 2017.
Basye, Dale E., Peggy Grant, Stefanie Hausman, and Tod Johnston. Get Active: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Student Success. Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education, 2015.
Cannon Design, VS Furniture, and Bruce Mau Design. The Third Teacher: 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching & Learning. New York: Abrams, 2010.
Doorley, Scott, and Scott Witthoft. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration. New York: Abrams, 2010.
http://www.renovatedlearning.com/2019/09/02/open-exploration-part-1/
http://www.renovatedlearning.com/2018/07/09/build-creativity-making/
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