Maker Education: experiences from schools and beyond

Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva, Gilberto Vieira, Gabriela Agustini,
Miguel Chaves For a few years now, schools and other learning
environments around the world have been implementing maker spaces,
hacker spaces and other co-creation spaces as novel learning
environments. Project-based and student-centered learning are some
of the methodologies with particular interest in children and young
adults education that emerge almost naturally from those spaces.
This session aims at sharing experiences, challenges and lessons
learned from implementing non-traditional subjects in creative
learning spaces in schools, alongside the perspective from less
formal learning spaces as a counterpart. We will be asking and
answering questions like: How can we bring those practices to
contexts with limited financial and material resources? How can we
empower local educators to bring those practices to their
communities or develop their own student centered and project based
learning environments? How can we make those learning environments
more diverse and inclusive? How does maker education intersect with
cultural innovative practices such as "gambiarra" in Brazil,
"hacking" in North America and Europe and "jugaad" in India and
Pakistan? The panelists come from similar backgrounds in maker
education but work on different fields and contexts, therefore
bringing diverse perspectives on the topic, ranging from private
schools to public institutions and cultural centers.After attending
this panel, educators, innovators and policy makers will have a
broader understanding on the adoption of maker practices in the
education field.