Maker Education in HE

1. Maker Education: the next wave of
teaching and learning innovation?
Mark Feltham
@markfeltham666 HEdW rks

2. The ‘Internet of Things’

3. The Maker
Movement
A growing community of
people finding expression
of their creative skills in
designing and making
things…
… learning by doing…
…and sharing what they
learn and do with others…

4. Makerfaires: the greatest
‘show and tell’ on earth

5. A learning revolution is
happening outside our doors

6. Hackerspaces, Makerspaces
and Fablabs

7. Makerspaces in the UK

8. Noisebridge

9. Bringing the
maker
culture into
the
classroom:
game changers for
education
Putting the learner in charge.
Giving students time to brainstorm, invent,
design, and build—and then time to fix mistakes,
improve, test, and improve again…
Think. Make. Learn. Share

10. The ‘maker ethos’

11. Maker
Education:
new learning
horizons
Computer controlled
fabrication devices

12. 3D printing

13. Portable 3D
scanners

14. Pepakura

15. Maker
Education:
new learning
horizons
Computer controlled
fabrication devices
Physical computing

16. Maker
Education:
new learning
horizons
Computer controlled
fabrication devices
Physical computing
Coding

17. Learning is
personal
“The best way for students to become deeply
invested in their work is for their projects to be
personally meaningful, afforded sufficient
development time, given access to constructive
materials, and the students themselves
encouraged to overcome challenges”.
Ownership
Experience
Risk taking

18. The maker revolution

19. ‘Butterfly Pi’

20. STEAM

21. Learning by
‘doing’

22. Recognising
the value of
making

23. University
Makerspaces

24. Making in an academic context:
JMU’s Maker Education Working Group
(MEWG)
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Mark Feltham
@markfeltham666

25. Making in an academic context:
ignoring the manual
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26. Making in an academic context:
G:37 ‘makerspace’ @Byrom Street
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27. Making in an academic context:
modes of study
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28. From ‘know not’… to robot
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29. Surf’s up…grab your boards