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Making/Makerspaces

In November 2017, a group of educators from across elementary and secondary schools met in a full-day design charette to strategically consider how "making" and "maker spaces" can support student learning. The result is a Maker Manifesto and a Maker Playbook to support teachers and students in our vision to enable students to:

Create
Build
Discover
Design
Tinker
Experiment

Imagine
Invent
Ideate
Iterate
Explore
​Prototype


The Archdiocese of Newark Maker's Manifesto

Through making, we envision:
Building a future of inventors, creators, and designers that produce innovative solutions to issues that face human beings.  
Creating learning experiences that challenge the intellect, provoke the imagination, and that excite the mind. 
Encouraging students to shape a personal pathway for learning that includes continual questioning, creating and recreating, and purposeful invention.
Immersing learners in experiences that promote wonder and curiosity and that encourage them to explore, tinker, imagine, and demonstrate ingenuity.  
Creating conditions for students to make sense of mistakes and ambiguity and in turn develop persistence and resilience.
Creating learning experiences that help students build and assemble new ideas and solutions from many different sources while employing unique tools, capacities and processes.​


Click here to contact Ann Oro - Assistant Superintendent Union County & Instructional Technology for a copy of The Archdiocese of Newark Maker Playbook.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Making in the Archdiocese 30,000 ft. view
Making in the Archdiocese 5,000 ft. view
Making in the Archdiocese Ground view
Building Your Program

Prepare
Step 1: Establish a Current Reality
Step 2: Choose a Maker Approach
Step 3: Establish Program Goals, Spatial Needs, Budget and Communication
Pilot
Step 4: Identifying the Human Resource
Step 5: Develop a Set of Experiences
Step 6: Develop Assessment Tools, Implement, and Evaluate
Grow​
Step 7: Build and Expand Your Program

Appendix and General Resource Links

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