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Remember growth mindset is not just for kids. Keep engaging with the Makerspace and you'll become a better maker, too.

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Remember growth mindset is not just for kids. Keep engaging with the Makerspace and you'll become a better maker, too.

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Allow time for students to truly experience the PROCESS of making. Time to design, gather resources, create, reflect, rebuild and share their projects. It's so hard to find enough time in a school day for them to truly work through this creative process.

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Have students create a MacGyver Kit with a real-world problem that must be solved only with items in the kit. Students create for other students to solve.

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Have students create a MacGyver Kit with a real-world problem that must be solved only with items in the kit. Students create for other students to solve.

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Collect a wide variety of materials for inventions/solutions.

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Collect a wide variety of materials for inventions/solutions.

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Consider the students who are people people and let them "make" relationships, solve conflicts and help others as a part of the making experience!

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Consider the students who are people people and let them "make" relationships, solve conflicts and help others as a part of the making experience!

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Provide access to both structured and unstructured time.  Introduce kids to design process, but allow them to develop their own process.

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Carve out the time and space for exploration and passion projects.

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Our makerspace aka Tinker Time is a safe learning environment where the kids don't need to be afraid of failure. They learn from things that do not work and use that knowledge to work toward their goal.
@PennyRayhill

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Question, create, collaborate, revise, learn

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use product "The Extraordinaires" to inspire empathy design

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Start a Twitter account to share creations, trials, and prototypes with students and families.

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I remind my Ss that mistakes are part of the process.  We talk a lot about   mistakes and what was learned by them.

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We talk about the "why" behind it and I give choice..choice..and more choice.

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Rather than teacher, consider calling yourself something else, such as 'Dream Consultants' like @techshop.

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Rather than teacher, consider calling yourself something else, such as 'Dream Consultants' like @techshop.

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We created a Maker Buffet to allow our 2nd graders to sample each space for week. Then after, they will be able to choose where they want to go to find their passion and create.

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Preserve the integrity and understand the value of informal learning.

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Preserve the integrity and understand the value of informal learning.

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My students are learning and struggling through making mistakes, going back and figuring out what went wrong and how to fix it?

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My students are learning and struggling through making mistakes, going back and figuring out what went wrong and how to fix it?

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Sometimes it's important for others to share their experiences so that risks can be taken

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let Ss think about what they will create, explore, take risks and create something different! It's okay to not get it right away!

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let Ss think about what they will create, explore, take risks and create something different! It's okay to not get it right away!

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Show them you care,  and you will inspire!

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Student collaboration with other schools

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Student collaboration with other schools

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By inviting experts into our space to serve as inspiration and mentors.

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Allowing them to respond through their own choice; writing, typing, taking a picture. #studentchoice #studentvoice

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By letting students know that our makerspace is a safe, comfortable, fun place where a kid can be a kid!

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Use authentic literature as a springboard into all that is possible

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Messiness is encouraged. Mistakes are encouraged.

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Messiness is encouraged. Mistakes are encouraged.

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Risks are encouraged.

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open exploration is key - students create and solve their own challenges

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open exploration is key - students create and solve their own challenges

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I give parameters and ideas. We follow the design process to help build ideas and focus.

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All creations are recognized. Pictures are taken of the creations and put in a running slide show on the TV in the room.

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We discuss learning from mistakes and growth mindset

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I make along side with them. Give them the freedom and voice to teach me. Innovators mindset is key. Mistakes are essential to learning.

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I make along side with them. Give them the freedom and voice to teach me. Innovators mindset is key. Mistakes are essential to learning.

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Through library centers which include creation and technology and research skills centers.

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Through library centers which include creation and technology and research skills centers.

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My makerspace feels like a please-touch museum

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My makerspace feels like a please-touch museum

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I remind myself 459 times a day to get out of their way.  It's like cultivating a flame, it needs air, space, and room to grow.

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I use lots of growth mindset read-alouds to model the maker mindset

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I use lots of growth mindset read-alouds to model the maker mindset