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As their makerspace project the students in Yasmin's second grade class are building a city: there are houses, a school, a church, even a castle, but Yasmin is not sure what to build--until inspiration strikes.

Utilising emancipatory approaches to educational technology in higher education allows welcoming creative and artistic modes of inquiry. This article presents two methods, a virtual makerspace and a guided fantasy story that were applied in a project concerned with rewilding higher education pedagogy. It is argued that the methods encouraged curiosity and care to address diversity and inclusion. They afforded mindfulness of individual needs and welcomed explorations of new directions that challenged potential biases (gender, race, disability or professionality). The article illustrates how these two methods may offer a safe space to dream and imagine educational spaces.

\"Award-winning and bestselling author-illustrator Ashley Spires takes readers on an inspirational alphabet journey, as our favorite characters from THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THING introduce all the words little makers need to know. This informational picture book gives young kids and their grown-ups vocabulary that will help them on their creative journeys, touching on themes such as growth mindset, imagination, innovation, mistakes and perseverance, so that they, too, can make something MAGNIFICENT one day (maybe even minus the meltdown!).\"-- Provided by publisher.

Libraries change lives, but many people may not be aware of how the library may be a life changing agent because individuals do not understand the real work of the institution. Most people think of the library as an antiquated house of dusty, old books where a few people may go from time to time if they are need of a book to learn about a specific topic for a high school or college research paper; however, the library has changed and continues to innovate meeting the needs of its community each and every day. Local and school libraries offer children an additional learning space to enhance their love of reading through a wealth of books individuals may or may not have at home. Library professionals take care to get to know their library community to select the perfect books children desire. In most cases, these specialized curated collections offer kids the ability to see a world beyond the one they currently know and experience.

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to study how entry-level 3D printers are currently being used in several shared machine shops (FabLabs, hackerspaces, etc.) and to examine the ambivalent emancipation often offered by 3D printing, when users prefer the fascinated passivity of replicating rather than the action of repairing. Based on a field study and on a large online survey, this paper offers to examine different practices with entry-level 3D printers, observed in several shared machine shops (FabLabs, hackerspaces, etc.). The recent evolution of additive manufacturing and the shift from high-end additive technologies to consumer’s entry-level 3D printing is taken as an entry point. Indeed, digital fabrication has recently received extensive media coverage and the maker movement has become a trendy subject for numerous influential publications. In the makerspaces that were taken for this field survey, 3D printers were very often used for demonstration, provoking fascination and encouraging a passive attitude. Design/methodology/approach – As part of the work for a PhD research on personal digital fabrication as practiced in FabLabs, hackerspaces and makerspaces, since 2012, a large-scale field survey at the heart of these workshops was carried out. Particular attention has been paid to the relationships established between the inhabitants of these places and their machines, observing the logic of developing projects and the reactions or techniques used to counter unforeseen obstacles – that shall be demonstrated to be an essential occurrence for these moments of production. From Paris to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Rome, Lyngen (Norway), San Francisco, New York, Boston, Tokyo, Kamakura (Japan) to Dakar, a means of observing at the heart of more than 30 makerspaces (FabLabs, hackerspaces) has been created, with the aim of looking beyond the speeches relayed by the media and to constitute an observatory of these places. The field observations are confirmed by a quantitative study, based on a survey submitted online to 170 users, coming from 30 different makerspaces in more than ten countries in the world and reached through social networks or mailing lists. This survey offers a rigorous insight on the uses of 3D printing and leads to the consideration of the types of attention applied to 3D printing and the part played by the “default” or “trivial” productions used for their demonstrations or performances. Findings – Based on both the observations and the quantitative survey, it can be discussed how the question of so-called “user-friendliness” is challenged by practices of repairing, fixing and adjusting, more than that of replicating. Indeed, it is claimed that this offers a possible meaning for 3D printing practices. In the description and analysis of the behaviours with 3D printers, this leads to privilege the idea of “disengaging” and the notion of “acting” rather than simply passively using. Originality/value – 3D printing is just one of the many options in the wide range available for personal digital fabrication. As a part of the same arsenal as laser cutters or numerical milling machines, 3D printing shares with these machines the possibility of creating objects from designs or models produced by a computer. These machines execute the instructions of operators whose practices – or behaviours – have yet to be qualified. These emerging technical situations pose a series of questions: who are those who use these 3D printers? What are they printing? What are the techniques, the gestures or the rituals imposed or offered by these machines?

This article locates an alternate paradigm of hacking in feminist cyberfiction, notably, James Tiptree, Jr.’s proto-cyberpunk novella, “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973). I argue this story critically reorients our understanding of how information technologies and their material artifacts construct and reinforce norms of able-bodiedness and ability. Drawing on archival materials from Bell System, early information theory, and crip theory, my reading reveals that Tiptree’s portrayal of disability is tied to a cybernetic conception of error and noise. These frictions between users and their machine interfaces materialize unexamined performances of critical labor and noncompliance that I link to the emerging field of crip technoscience. Tracking these disruptions in cybernetic feedback across “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” and in historical accounts of the telephone switchboard operator, I show that error and noise underpin an early example of a feminist hacking ethos, and also crip accounts of electronic disembodiment often imputed to information society and cyberpunk fiction.

Friday, May 26 Art Opening reception, \"Object, Manner, Means,\" an exhibition of figurative art, 5-7 p.m., Radius Gallery, 114 E. Main St. Featuring 10 artists' whose work challenges notions of what representation in art can be, including Holly Andres, Chris Bivins, Victoria Brace, Hannah Lee Cameron, MyungJin Kim, Linda Leslie, Megan Moore, Ben Pease, Chris Riccardo and Shannon Troxler Opening reception, 5-7 p.m., Bigfork Art & Cultural Center, 525 Electric Ave. Featuring \"Artist's Choice,\" 27 of Montana's artists, painters, craftsmen and photographers. 406-837-6927, bigforkculture.org. Kids' stuff Story time, 11 a.m., Barnes and Noble, 2640 N. Reserve St. Family story time for children ages 4 and older and their caregivers, 11 a.m., Missoula Public Library, 201 E. Main St. Potpourri 41st annual Memorial Day Flea Market, daylight to dusk, St. Regis Community Park. Fresh retelling of the story of Noah and the Art. 406-883-9212, portpolsonplayers.com Monday, May 29 Potpourri 41st annual Memorial Day Flea Market, daylight to dusk, St. Regis Community Park. 90th annual Memorial Day wreath laying ceremonies throughout Missoula starting at Caras Park overlook at 10 a.m. Then approximately 10:30 a.m., Missoula County Courthouse lawn; 11 a.m., Fort Missoula Military Cemetery; 11:30 a.m., Western Montana State Veterans Cemetery; noon, Sunset Memorial Cemetery; 1:30 p.m., Missoula City Cemetery; 1:45 p.m., St. Mary's Annex Cemetery; 2 p.m., St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery; 2:30 p.m., Rose Memorial Park; 3:30 p.m., University of Montana Afghanistan-Iraq Memorial. 719-661-4037. Kids' stuff Tiny tales for ages 3 and under, 10:30 a.m., large meeting room; Frenchtown Branch LEGO...

Andrew Carle, a technology educator at Flint High School in Northern Virginia, scurries about the classroom, rearranging desks and chairs, strategically sprinkling around wires, batteries, transistors, and clocks--all the while a video camera whirs in the background. A few seconds later, 10 seventh graders saunter in and the room becomes a hive of activity. Students cluster in shifting groups of twos and threes, occasionally checking in with Carle, testing wires, referencing books and Macbooks. In that hour, compressed into 140 inspiring seconds on YouTube, the middle school students become consultants, designers, and builders. Or, as Carle and thousands of others like to call them, makers. The maker movement, known to past generations as DIY (do-it-yourself), encourages collaboration, invention, and radical participation with a single goal: to create new things. This maker ethos is gaining a serious foothold in education, both in practice and at the policy level. The White House's embrace of the maker movement is hard-wired into President Barack Obama's Educate to Innovate campaign to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education. As the maker movement evolves, so, too, does the demand for a new kind of participatory public arena, commonly known as a maker space. Some leading maker machers--among them Cory Doctorow, science fiction author and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing--see librarians and makers as natural allies and think of libraries as a natural setting for creating a maker space.