Makerspaces are physical locations where students gather to share resources and knowledge. Students create a learning environment to imagine, design, prototype, invent and solve. It offers a hands-on approach to learning by allowing students to experiment and invent as they dive deeper into learning science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts.
Makerspaces impact on student learning is reflected in a combination of critical thinking skills, developing design thinking processes, and self-directed learning.
Makerspaces encourage critical thinking skills. They help students examine all facts and aspects of a problem, without relying on a teacher for instruction and guidance. Makerspaces give students the freedom to be creative, think outside of the box, and develop their ideas into reality. Makerspaces in education help students to collaborate, communicate effectively, and solve problems through design thinking.
Makerspaces are a hub for innovation and, therefore, design thinking! In each step of the design thinking process, from empathizing a problem to testing possible solutions, makerspaces aid in the learning and discovery of solving problems. Makerspaces enable educators to offer complex problems to students who in turn become more engaged. For students, real-world problems and questions become more interesting, for they are not required to remember information, but rather inspired to solve a problem by thinking creatively and innovatively.
Makerspaces promote asking questions! As areas of self-directed learning, makerspaces support hands-on learning, inquiring, and discovering. Makerspaces allow individuals who learn best by doing to experiment and think creatively.
Makerspaces allow students to fail, which is a lesson in of itself. But, makerspaces most importantly foster questions and gives students the opportunity to experience how and why a concept works.
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Makerspaces are physical locations where students gather to share resources and knowledge. Students create a learning environment to imagine, design, prototype, invent and solve. It offers a hands-on approach to learning by allowing students to experiment and invent as they dive deeper into learning science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts.
Makerspaces impact on student learning is reflected in a combination of critical thinking skills, developing design thinking processes, and self-directed learning.
Makerspaces encourage critical thinking skills. They help students examine all facts and aspects of a problem, without relying on a teacher for instruction and guidance. Makerspaces give students the freedom to be creative, think outside of the box, and develop their ideas into reality. Makerspaces in education help students to collaborate, communicate effectively, and solve problems through design thinking.
Makerspaces are a hub for innovation and, therefore, design thinking! In each step of the design thinking process, from empathizing a problem to testing possible solutions, makerspaces aid in the learning and discovery of solving problems. Makerspaces enable educators to offer complex problems to students who in turn become more engaged. For students, real-world problems and questions become more interesting, for they are not required to remember information, but rather inspired to solve a problem by thinking creatively and innovatively.
Makerspaces promote asking questions! As areas of self-directed learning, makerspaces support hands-on learning, inquiring, and discovering. Makerspaces allow individuals who learn best by doing to experiment and think creatively.
Makerspaces allow students to fail, which is a lesson in of itself. But, makerspaces most importantly foster questions and gives students the opportunity to experience how and why a concept works.
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