Tag: Makerspace

  • Making as embodied learning

    Making as embodied learning

    In this short article, Megan Cotnam-Kappel and I rethink the inextricable links between learning and physical action. We position making with digital and physical tools as a pedagogical approach that aligns, theoretically, with embodiment.  This is a pre-print version of the work, which will appear in the University of Ottawa’s Education Review this spring. Suggested…

  • Ontario Makers, Mentors and Innovators Conference 2018

    Ontario Makers, Mentors and Innovators Conference 2018

    The University of Ottawa’s Richard LabbĂ© Makerspace is an incredible — dare I say, a national — treasure. This fall, it moved from its original spaces in the Colonel By building to the shiny new STEM complex where, Dr. Hanan Anis and her management team led by Zaineb Al-Faisley and Justine Boudreau, have taken their…