maker workshop part 1: itec 2016
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Get ready!
Please go to http://coffeeforthebrain.com/maker/
1. Fill out the pre workshop Padlet2. Begin work on your nametag
www.coffeeforthebrain @coffeechugbooks [email protected]
LED Stickie
What you need
● 1 Sticker● 1 LED Light● 1 Watch Battery
Instructions
1. Poke the LED legs through
2. Connect long leg to + side of battery
3. Bend legs and press to sticker side of sticker
4. BOOM!
Age
nda BUILD, PLAY, SHARE
● Introduction and Bio ● What is a Makerspace? What is a
Maker? ● Build, Play, Share Cycle● Improvement is No Longer the
Challenge: Maker Mindset and Culture● Make Challenge #2 Ready, Set, Design● PBL and Makerspace: How These
Worlds Collide When Done Properly● What’s Next?
Let’s Begin
This workshop is about
BUILDING PLAYING SHARING
Essential Questions
• Why should we care about the maker movement?
• How can you use the idea from maker movement in your teaching and schools?
• How can you use maker projects to teach in an authentic way? Should you?
• What happens when the maker mindset and culture collide with project based learning and teaching?
Not About The Tools“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”
Kevin Kelly
What in the world is a
makerspace?
“Makerspaces, sometimes referred to as hackerspaces, hackspaces, and fables are creative, diy spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn.”
Ellyssa Kroski
“Makerspaces encourage project based and cross disciplinary learning, which leads to the type of innovation that both schools and businesses should be encouraging in today’s economy.”
Robert Brown
Makerspaces are not about the tools; they’re aboutenabling making.
What is a maker?
Elements of a Makerspace Culture
• Curious
• Playful
• Risk Takers
• Perspective
• Persistent
• Sharing
Curious
Playful
Risk Taker
Perspective
Persistent
SharingDon’t be afraid to ask and give help
You make with your mind and form the idea with your hands
Personalized Learning
• Making and personalized learning go hand in hand
• Watch any child interact with an online device
• “Personalized learning is not something someone does to a leaner.”
“We don’t wait for inspiration. We chase it down with circuits and coffee!”
Coffeechug Cafe
1st grade question Sharing the journey of making
Quick ChatWhat elements currently exist in your school(s)/classroom?
What elements need to be added or enhanced? Why are they lacking? What are the barriers?
This workshop is about
BUILDING PLAYING SHARING
Open the bags
Explore the contents
The Rules
1. Have fun!
2. Everybody Participates
3. No wrong answers - “go with the flow”
4. Don’t have the answer? Think with your hands!
5. Need at least 5 people at your table!
Practice Build
Open up your bag and build a dog with 4 bricks.
Raise your dog in the air when done.
Dog ExamplesMaurer family test experiment
Did you know….
6, 2x4 LEGO pieces can assemble into 915,000,000+
possible combinations?
InstructionsAdd a few bricks to your minifig and introduce yourself to others at your table.
● Who are you?● Why did you come to
ITEC and/or this session?
Practice Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#itecia and #makersummit
Body parts of
homunculi
Hands are search engine of the mind
Largest portion of cortex areas of brain
Build together
● Work at your table to create largest standing LEGO tower
● Minifig MUST be at top
Practice Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#itecia and #makersummit
Typical ClassTypical MeetingTypical PD
Lean In● Co Owners of
the work● You care● You are
invested● Naturally
happens
Break down tower and
return pieces
Grab 5 random pieces
Grab 5 piecesAssemble in random arrangement
Symbols
Bricks Can Mean Anything!
Order of People
Clockwise starting with person closest to the screen
30 Seconds to explain the topic given to you.
My object represents the students in my classroom because
What did we experience that can benefit your classroom?
Hand mind connection
Tangible objects to express ourselves
Creating metaphors and stories
Think creatively about the future and current problems
Story matters more than the object
Learning journey more important than final product
What will your classroom look like 5 years from now?
The Rules
1. If not sure what to build, then let your hands do the building AND thinking
2. Only talk about the models, questions only about the models, introduce only the models
3. Divide tasks at your table
Assign Roles
1. Facilitator - leads the discussion, makes sure everyone participates and everyone gets to speak
2. Reporter - Takes photos of models and shares to Twitter #itecia and #makersummit
3. Time Keeper - keeps everyone on time and keeps things moving accordingly
What will your classroom look like 5 years from now?
Step 1: Build individually
Step 2: Explain to table
Use keywords
1-3 keywords to describe your answer
Explain to rest of group
3 minutes to build
10 minutes for sharing
When you finish1. Write keywords on paper and set next to
the model2. Take picture with the keywords so others
can understand model
Community Build
Consider all the ideas and perspectives
Place models together connecting ideas
Come up with team answer that reporter will report out story
Decide most important actions steps. Be specific. No more than 3
SharingTake a picture of your work
#itecia and #makersummit
Final StepWhat will you do? What are you committing yourself to changing in your classroom/school?
Take a picture and share! Hold yourself accountable
LEGO your school
