8/26/2023 0 Comments Minecraft duck tapeRecently – as our LIS students are hearing about participation, reading the Atlas of New Librarianship, following the Library of the People as part of Occupy Wall Street – they have been stopping by faculty offices and asking why we teach what we do, and forming their own lecture series to fill in the gaps they perceive in their preparations. What got Andrew hooked was sitting in front of the maker bot while it printed during the open house and got to explain how it worked, and what it was printing. What got him hooked was when he came into the Fab Lab two weeks later and saw that the librarians had hung his duct tape Fab Lab sign on the door. What hooked him was when Lauren asked him to teach the duct tape class. Sure the 3D printing was cool, but that’s not what hooked Riley. What sticks out to me is the motivations my sons had, and how that was encouraged by the librarian. But that’s not what sticks out to me about this story. Now you might think this is the point when I to talk about millennials, or the power of Fab Labs (I don’t buy the millennial argument and I hope you know I LOVE the Maker Space in the library concept). The next Saturday we took the “library” on a disk back to Fayetteville and printed it out. Sure they could build it in Legos (Andrew later did), but Legos don’t have working roller-coasters and you can’t invite your friends from around the world to walk through it (there are as I write this over 23 million registered Minecraft users). Within 10 minutes he had sketched it out on paper.Ģ0 minutes after that he and his brother were building the library in Minecraft, a popular game akin to SecondLife, or SimCity. “I’m going to design the library of the future!” he declared. You should have seen him beam when Sue Considine, the amazing director of Fayetteville Free, personally thanked him for helping out.Ī week later my youngest son said he had a great idea for this year’s science fair. “Great” said Lauren without missing a beat “you could teach it.” And he did. Riley, my 11 year old said “I make stuff with Duct Tape,” and before Lauren knew what was happening he was flipping though pictures of his creations on his phone. While we were busy printing out a robot and ring on the 3D printer, the librarian (Lauren) mentioned an upcoming open house for the Fab Lab that would include the 3D printer, making jewelry, and making things in Duct Tape…if she could find someone who made things with Duct Tape. A few weeks back I took my sons to the Fayetteville Free Library to learn more about their new Fab Lab and see the 3D MakerBot printer in action.
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