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Anyone who is familiar with my work knows that my focus is not on products or materials or supplies for a makerspace and that I have written extensively instead about the research, pedagogy, and [...]

I recently launched a new blog series, Makerspaces A to Z.  You can read all about the letter A, B, C and D. Thank you to all those who shared their thoughts about those posts using the [...]

What is a Maker? What does a Maker look like, sound like, or feel like? These are all questions I would ask young students when introducing the concept of Makerspace to get them thinking about [...]

In any industry, one gets accustomed to the lingo, acronyms, abbreviations, and their own way of speaking.  The education system is no stranger to this.  With so many phrases to remember and [...]

In 21 years in education, I have seen many trends come and go. I am on a mission to keep makerspaces from being added to that list. That’s at the core of everything I do now. Makerspaces are an [...]

With the success of last year’s post on the Top Ten Makerspace Favorites of 2015, we are excited to announce this year’s list. We have spent the year scouring maker products to Padlet that [...]

This post is #3 in a series of 10 posts that serve as extensions of the 10 chapters in Hacking Project Based Learning, which I coauthored with Erin Murphy. This post is an extension of Chapter 3, [...]