Maker-Centered Learning with Lucie deLaBruere

Workshop Notes:

Maker-Centered Learning: Supporting Portfolios, Proficiencies, and PLPs through Making Lucie deLaBruere

Why and how can having a space for making in your school provide students with an opportunity to develop transferrable skills, create evidence of proficiencies for portfolios, and provide flexible pathways for their personal learning plans? Let’s look at student evidence from Vermont schools as well as research summaries about the benefits of maker centered learning. CIA1 Curriculum, CIA2 Flexible Pathways

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• Here is the slides presentation for this workshop

The “why” of maker-centered learning:

• “Sometimes our hands know before our minds know.”
• This is a makerspace:

Prompt:

• Make a statement about something you care deeply about.
• Students are given time to work with their hands, using the Design Thinking technique, to create their statement using each makerspace.