The Case for a Campus Makerspace

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1. The Case for the
   Campus Makerspace Audrey Watters @audreywatters ELI Annual Meeting, February 2013
2. This is not a talk about MOOCs (Except it sorta is...)
16. “In most contemporary educational situations where children come into contact with computers the computer is used to put children through their paces, to provide exercises of an appropriate level of difficulty, to provide feedback, and to dispense information. The computer programming the child.” Seymour Papert, Mindstorms (1980)
17. Image Credits: Caine’s Arcade, http://cainesarcade.com 
 CNN, http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/01/27/live-steve-jobs-presents-the-tablet/ Peter DeSilva, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/technology/california-to-give-web-courses-a-big-trial.html Tim Owens, University of Mary Washington https://secure.flickr.com/groups/thinklab/ Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria https://github.com/uvicmakerlab/ Stanford University, FabLab@School http://tltl.stanford.edu/projects/fablabschool Articles: Jason Hidalgo, “The future of higher education: reshaping universities through 3D printing” http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/19/reshaping- universities-through-3d-printing/ Erica Kaufman, “3D Research Writing” http://cac.ophony.org/2013/01/23/3d-research-writing/ Books: Seymour Papert, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas Class Blogs: Makerbots and Mashups, http://umwthinklab.com/category/makerbots-and-mashups-fall-2012/