The Case for the

Campus Makerspace

Audrey Watters @audreywatters

ELI Annual Meeting, February 2013

This is not a talk

about MOOCs(Except it sorta is...)

“In most contemporary educational situations where children come into contact with computers the computer is used to put children through their paces, to provide exercises of an appropriate level of difficulty, to provide feedback, and to dispense information. The computer programming the child.”

Seymour Papert, Mindstorms (1980)

Image Credits:

Caine’s Arcade, http://cainesarcade.com

CNN, http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/01/27/live-steve-jobs-presents-the-tablet/

Peter DeSilva, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/technology/california-to-give-web-courses-a-big-trial.html

Tim Owens, University of Mary Washington https://secure.flickr.com/groups/thinklab/

Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria https://github.com/uvicmakerlab/

Stanford University, FabLab@School http://tltl.stanford.edu/projects/fablabschool

Articles:

Jason Hidalgo, “The future of higher education: reshaping universities through 3D printing” http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/19/reshaping-universities-through-3d-printing/

Erica Kaufman, “3D Research Writing” http://cac.ophony.org/2013/01/23/3d-research-writing/

Books:

Seymour Papert, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

Class Blogs:

Makerbots and Mashups, http://umwthinklab.com/category/makerbots-and-mashups-fall-2012/