Journal article
What's all the fuss about makerspaces and making?
Practical Literacy: the early and primary years, Vol.25(2), pp.39-41
01/06/2020
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Abstract
Makerspaces are 'sites for creative production ... [using] digital or physical technologies to explore ideas, learn technical skills, and create new products' (Sheridan et al., p. 505). Making works with the multimodal nature of literacy and so oral and print text are often featured as well as other modes such as still and moving images, music, and expression (Kress and Jewitt 2003). When engaging children in makerspace activities, the collaborative nature of design is important. However, perhaps the key element is that makerspaces involve children 'making' something.
Details
- Title
- What's all the fuss about makerspaces and making?
- Creators
- Annette Woods - University College LondonAspa Baroutsis - Griffith University
- Publication Details
- Practical Literacy: the early and primary years, Vol.25(2), pp.39-41
- Publisher
- Australian Literacy Educators' Association
- Identifiers
- 991012992891802368
- Copyright
- © Australian Literacy Educators' Association, 2020
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article