Promoting Inclusive Learning through a Library’s Makerspace

dc.audienceAudience::Academic and Research Libraries Sectionen_US
dc.contributor.authorO’Brien, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorSgro, Adriana
dc.coverage.spatialLocation::Canadaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-14T09:33:54Z
dc.date.available2023-11-14
dc.date.available2023-11-14T09:33:54Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-14
dc.description.abstractThe mission of the Makerspace at the University of Toronto Scarborough Library is to support student learning and engagement. The Makerspace staff foster an inclusive, safe and supportive community where all users feel welcome to collaborate, build, invent, iterate and share their ideas and knowledge. We aligned our vision with our campus's strategic plan for "Inspiring Inclusive Excellence". Within this framework, the Makerspace's team delivers programming, workshops and events that inspires belongingness and celebrates the diverse ways of knowing and methods of knowledge translation. This poster will highlight several initiatives led by the Makerspace's team to inspire inclusion through making. Our “You Can Build a Robot” program introduces robotics to an interdisciplinary group of staff and students with limited knowledge of coding and micro-controllers. Although one of the program's objectives is to develop technical skills in these areas, another important objective is to foster resiliency within a “failing forward” framework. We will also showcase our initiative to support podcasting assignments. Instructors are encouraged to seek alternative formats of assignments that support multiple learning styles and expressions. The use of podcasts as an assignment is increasing and the Library's Makerspace provides equipment, space and resources to support instructors and students.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://2023.ifla.org/poster-sessions/
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/3071
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries88th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), 2023 Rotterdam;Poster Sessions
dc.rights.holderElizabeth O’Brienen_US
dc.rights.holderAdriana Sgroen_US
dc.rights.licenseCC BY 4.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectSubject::Communityen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Resource discoveryen_US
dc.subjectSubject::Collaborative learningen_US
dc.titlePromoting Inclusive Learning through a Library’s Makerspaceen_US
dc.typeEvents Materialsen_US
dc.typePostersen_US
ifla.oPubId0en_US

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