Megan Egbert

Creating Makers (eBook, PDF)

How to Start a Learning Revolution at Your Library

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows you how, even with a tight budget and limited space, you can foster "maker mentality" in your library and help patrons reap the learning benefits of making-with or without a makerspace. Just because your library is small or limited on funds doesn't mean you can't be part of the maker movement. This book explains that what is really important about the movement is not the space, but the creativity, innovation, and resilience that go along with a successful maker program. All it takes is making some important changes to a library's programs, services, and collections to facilitate the maker mentality in their patrons, and this book shows you how. The author explains what a maker is, why this movement is important, and how making fits in with educational initiatives such as STEM and STEAM as well as with library service. Her book supplies practical advice for incorporating the principles of the maker movement into library services-how to use small spaces or mobile spaces to accommodate maker programs, creating passive maker programs, providing access to making through circulating maker tools, partnering with other organizations, hosting maker faires, and more. Readers will better understand their instructional role in cultivating makers by human-centered design thinking, open source and shared learning, and implementation of an inquiry approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440843877
• Artikelnr.: 68217349

Autorenporträt

Megan Egbert is district programs manager, Meridian Library District, ID.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction SECTION I: MAKER MENTALITY Chapter 1: What Is
a Maker? Characteristics of Making Making versus Tinkering From Consumer to
Creator What Is Not Making Chapter 2: Making for Everyone Making for All
Abilities Making for All Ages Making Is for Girls Making across Curriculum
Chapter 3: Why Making Matters for Individuals Learning through Failure
Learning Empathy through Design Maker Empowerment Curiosity Engagement
Chapter 4: Why Making Matters for Libraries Entrepreneurs Out-of-School
Learning Participatory Culture 21st Century Learning Skills Creativity and
the Importance of Play Because It Works-Kind Of SECTION II: CREATING MAKERS
Chapter 5: Making in Any Space Small Spaces Mobile Spaces Stealth Programs
Pop-up or Dispersed Spaces Making through Circulation Making through
Partnerships Chapter 6: Access to Making Access and Visibility Cost
Location Policies and Legalities Safety Chapter 7: Teaching Makers
Inquiry-based Learning Constructionism Learning Paths Rapid Prototyping
Design Process Evaluate Your Programs Chapter 8: Creating a Culture of
Makers Allow Staff Time to Make Allow Opportunities for Staff to Share
Their Talent Hire or Train the Staff You Need Create a Culture That
Celebrates Failure Create a Culture That Celebrates Creativity Share Your
Story Conclusion References Index