#TE-03-11 Build a Makerspace for Young People
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Raspberry Pi FoundationDescription
Embrace the maker movement – build a makerspace in your community
A makerspace is an area inside a school, library or other public facility, which young people can use to apply digital skills to the real world, exploring ideas and making things collaboratively.
This online course will show you how to create a makerspace in your community. You’ll explore different approaches to makerspaces, understand the pedagogy that underpins the maker movement, and get practical advice on getting started.
By the end of the course, you’ll understand the benefits of embracing making and know how to find partners to help you build a successful makerspace in your community.
Who will you learn with?
Training Manager for Raspberry Pi Foundation North America. Find me on Twitter: @ascollins
Who developed the course?
The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world, so they are capable of understanding and shaping our increasingly digital world.
What Will I Learn?
- Explore how to create a makerspace in your community
- Explore different approaches to makerspaces
- Discuss the pedagogy that underpins the maker movement
- Apply practical advice on getting started
- Identify partners to help you build a successful makerspace in your community
Topics for this course
Welcome to the maker community
Welcome to the course00:01:15
Meet the team and your fellow learners
What is the maker movement?
Creating a Culture of Making
Planning your makerspace
This course is a great guide, exactly in line with my ideal maker space. Too good.
At the end of this course I understood the benefits of embracing creativity and how to find partners to help me build a successful maker space in my own community. Good guidance.
This course shows us how to create a maker space in a community. Lead us into the different approaches to the maker space, understand the pedagogy that supports the maker movement, and get practical advice for getting started. It's a great course.
At first, I really didn't know what this Makerspace was. After taking this class, I felt really good. I wish there was such a Makerspace in my community.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
Requirements
- To take part in the course learners need access to free programming software Scratch and Python
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for anyone who wants to build a makerspace for young people. You might be a school or community librarian, a primary or secondary school teacher, a school governor, a member of a parent-teacher association or a museum education officer.