The APS Makers are back at it! We held or first MakerClub 2.0 tonight. I am also happy to have APS Elementary Technology Teacher Mrs. Tracey DeMeritt and Technology Coordinator Mr. Greg Marten from Lenawee ISD helping out this year.
The club consist of students Kindergarten through 5th grade and is held after school for 10 weeks. Each week the members will be exposed to materials that will bring their curiosity and imagination to life. This is an informal, playful, atmosphere for learning to unfold. A space with little directions, where making rather than consuming is the focus. A space where transdiciplinary learning, inquiry, risk-taking, thinking, crafting, tinkering, and wondering can blossom.
For our first night we kept it basic and just created with cardboard and random recycled materials. It is so fun so see what the kids create, it tells me a lot about their personalities.
Having cardboard, tape, and recycled materials is one of the easiest and inexpensive ways to "do" a MakerSpace. Check out this article on the Value of Creativity from the Imagination Foundation.
"The world is moving at a tremendous rate. No one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the world of the past, not for our world, but for their
world-the world of the future." -Maker Ed
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