5 Questions with Blaine Bryson on Creating a Makerspace in Your Class
"The concept of a Makerspace is amazing and wonderful, but planning and implementing can be daunting. There are implications that can make the entire process overwhelming and exhausting, but as an educator it is important to remember what your desired outcome is. For me the desired outcome was to give students a unique and worthwhile learning experience." -- Blaine Bryson is a maker teacher at Avon Middle School in Avon Ohio Q: What's your own process like for planning your Makerspace/Lab for the upcoming school year? The idea of a Makerspace for our school is new and has developed out of a district wide goal to expand electives for our students. When I first began to plan the class, I pitched it to my administration as a technology course that involved creating a variety of optional learning experiences. From the initial idea of a technology course based on student choice, the course began to take shape based on a few questions that needed answered. The