The first is the budget, which determines the scale, equipment investment, use effect and frequency of maker space construction.
The second is the purpose. What is the purpose of building a maker space? Is it to satisfy the teacher's teaching and research pilot, or to provide students with enough creative and inventive space, or to give some students an operable maker place, or to cater to the campus classroom construction?
Third, teachers, class teachers after the completion of the maker space construction, how to carry out the maker course, must think well in advance. Without teachers, or teachers who are willing to do it, there will be problems in the promotion of campus maker culture without planning in the early stage.
Combining the above three points, the construction of maker space in primary and secondary schools can basically have a preliminary idea:
According to the landing point and existing conditions of maker education in the future, find a maker space scheme suitable for school development, ranging from tens of thousands to millions, which can actually meet the requirements of different schools. Some schools only need to transform a small classroom to realize the main functions of the maker space, and some schools may not be able to realize the real maker space landing with hundreds of square meters. What is important is that teachers who are committed to this matter can only drive the school's maker education and maker culture, and no amount of money and equipment will do.
In the future, Maker Education will focus on Maker space management services. Different schools have different needs for maker space. What is needed is good follow-up management and training of teachers who can continue to drive the school's maker culture, from basic manual production to the principle of single chip microcomputer to programming design to lathe technology to 3D printing technology to the design of drones and humanoid robots to the realization of maker creation. There is no way to fully realize the landing of maker space by relying on a single teacher or one or two students in each link. If there are sufficient resources, it can be built in many ways, and if there are insufficient resources, it can also be developed in a single way, mainly because of the ultimate goal.