Setting Students up for Academic and Life Success with a Makerspace Florida Library Webinars Amy Vecchione

Hello I’m Amy Vecchione I work at Boise State University amyvecchione@boisestate.edu

Let’s Discuss Makerspace as a place for empowerment What can it change in the lives of our users? How we can enhance or support connection Is a makerspace an empowerment center? Can it help reduce drop-out rates? Can it transform someone's life? A makerspace is often seen as a center for innovation, experimental technology and learning center for technology. But, in reality these tools can create an environment that offers so much more.  Karina Smith/Cathlene McGraw/ -- article & Sheil Krell Donovan Kay – Ethos Project Brian Stone class – Enable Prosthetics Samantha Davis – heart models Precious Plastics – Chris Dagher

What is the most recent thing you made?

“The entire world, for better or for worse, has been altered by the human hand, by human beings doing this weird and irrational thing that only we do, amongst all our peers in the animal world, which is to waste our time making things that nobody needs, making things a little more beautiful than they have to be, altering things, changing things, building things, composing things, shaping things. This is what we do.” https://onbeing.org/programs/elizabeth-gilbert-choosing-curiosity-over-fear-may2018/

The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.

Makerspaces Value ACRL News “One Size Does Not Fit All” “Makerspaces have evolved from their discipline-specific origins to include sites of interdisciplinary collaboration, making, and sharing. Contemporary making vis-à-vis the makerspace, recognizes the value of informal sharing of knowledge and a belief in multidisciplinary learning supported by a maker community. The movement proposes to break down the often-critiqued, siloed experience of contemporary higher education. Academic libraries, as the common thread among all campus disciplines, are a natural fit for the maker movement.” Is a makerspace an empowerment center? Can it help reduce drop-out rates? Can it transform someone's life? A makerspace is often seen as a center for innovation, experimental technology and learning center for technology. But, in reality these tools can create an environment that offers so much more.  Join Amy Vecchione as we discuss the Boise State MakerLab and how they have moved past implementation and created a true community space where the community helps guide resource development and how the space is used. The MakerLab uses student volunteers, the Make It VIP courses and mentoring to create a thriving makerspace with over 600 active users who use the lab to bring ideas to life and develop the confidence to succeed in other aspects of their life.

However, the real value of the library makerspace lies in the creative and collaborative activity that grows and subsequently shares knowledge creation and innovation. Thus, the development of makerspaces should not focus solely on technology and the physical act of making, but must also consider the precursor to making, which includes collaboration and ideation along with post-making activities of presentation and critique.

https://news. boisestate https://news.boisestate.edu/update/2018/12/14/boise-states-makerlab-its-inclusive-its-creative-its-not-just-for-engineers/

Empowerment

Library workers can build bridges to the work of counselors https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/lib_facpubs/139/ https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/lib_facpubs/139/ To foster success in our communities – to help individuals have creative confidence, to innovate and to create – and to learn – we can partner with folks who work in areas that support individuals already. What areas in your communities serve that kind of a role? They can be day-centers for the homeless, day care for children, - for me it was connecting to the advisors on our campus who were working with individuals that are at-promise. These individuals are often experiencing something in their lives that is preventing them from being as successful as they need to be. Collaborate with Academic Advisors

Stating positive attributes about projects and ideas Offering potential solutions to problems Connect users to other user experts “You are the expert in _______ so I trust you on that.” When they ask “Can I?” respond “I trust you to do that well considering all of the stakeholders needs”

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Transformative

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Resources Seymour Papert – Teaching Children Thinking Thinking About Thinking About Seymour One Size Does Not Fit All Enable Prosthetics Precious Plastics