Lesson Plans Added To Maker Literacies Website

In order to participate in the Maker Literacies program there are several criteria that faculty members must agree to in order to have their curriculum materials published on the website. Participating faculty members are required to adopt a minimum of two student learning outcomes from our list of maker competencies, allow the Maker Literacies program team to administer pre- and post-self-evaluation surveys to each of their enrolled students, submit a copy of their assignment/project prompt for publication on the Maker Literacies website, and complete an exit survey (or in some earlier cases, a detailed narrative feedback report) about their experience with the program. Optionally, but highly encouraged, faculty members are asked to submit an assessment component that exemplifies how they assessed student learning on their selected maker competencies, and choose their preferred version of Creative Commons license from the Creative Commons license selector website. Participants are informed that we will default to the “Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)” license, should they not specifically request a different one.

The list of maker competencies serves as the core of our Maker Literacies program and is interdisciplinary by design. Lesson plans on the website represent twelve distinct disciplines: Art, Computer Science, Education (with focuses on Art, Mathematics, and Science), Engineering, English, Geology, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Public Administration, Spanish, and Theater. Our vision is that every undergraduate, regardless of discipline, will receive at least one curricular experience requiring use of an academic makerspace. With the conclusion of our two-year pilot program, supported in-part by the IMLS planning grant, we endeavor to expand our reach into additional disciplines. Any faculty member, at any institution, may contact our program team at makerliteracies@uta.edu to find out how to get involved.