maker workshop part 2: improvement and ready set design
TRANSCRIPT
Improvement is no longer
the challenge
We should be asking not how to do school better, but different.
What do we mean by learning?
Creative Confidence
Creative Confidence is a way of “experiencing the world that generates new approaches and solutions.”
Your job isn't to CATCH UP
to the status quo;
the job is to CREATE and BE the
status quo.
Seth Godin
Do not wait for instructions
"Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do That."
"Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do That."
be honest!
How many of you refused to put a credit card into a machine 15 years ago?
Yet…….How many of you have sent an emoji?
Why is this important?
Problem with Schools
• Developing these mindsets are not in the “curriculum”
• How much time do we challenge students to initiate?
• Schools are programmed
• jazz band song selections
• athletic plays
• school projects
Coffeechug Cafe
I am a maker
Makerspaces are more than just
STEM and engineering
If MAKERSPACES are so powerful, then why are they only in isolation?
What is your WOW?
What is your WOW?
–Johnny Appleseed
Paint Your Masterpiece
VISION
You need to have the GUTS and HEART and the PASSION to MAKE!
Ingredients
• an idea
• people to work with you
• a place to work
• materials
• money
What would our world
look like if more people
started projects, made a
ruckus, and took risks?
-Seth Godin
START NOW
Are you ready for make
challenge #2
Ready, Set, Design is a quick group activity. It uses simple, inexpensive materials and is an effective tool for
problem solving, creative thinking and team building.
Objective: Participants are asked to solve an open-ended problem with time and material
constraints.
“I need to keep a newborn baby warm in a place with no
electricity.”
share
Let’s light a fire... shall we?
Unlimited Potentialhttp://www.pitsco.com/Classroom_Solutions/?tree=11&art=1032
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Where Do Good Ideas Come
From?
3 Easy Steps
1. Don’t think about it.2. Just start.
3. Keep starting.
Don’t bother just to
be better than your
contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself.
William Faulkner
The biggest obstacle to overcome was myself.Gretchen Rubin
Change your PERCEPTION?
Why will I be successful in this class even if
I've never been successful before?
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If students had a choice to go to your
classroom, would you have an empty room?
Make it HAPPEN NOW!
“Education is what someone tells you to do. Learning is what you do for yourself.”
-Skillshare Manifesto
Do not ask“What will I innovate today?”
Ask
“What problem in the world needs a solution?”
no one says “go”All ideas are wasted if
When you do THIS, what happens?When you do THAT, what happens?
Kevin Ashton
“The encouraging part is that everyone can create. The challenging part is that there is no
magic moment of creation. Creators spend almost all their time creating, persevering
despite doubt, failure, ridicule, and rejection until they succeed in making something new
and useful. There are no tricks, shortcuts, or get creative quick schemes. The process is
ordinary, even if the outcome is not.
Creating is not magic but work.
Most of our world is made of innovations inherited from people long forgotten—not people who were rare but people who were common.
What will you make today?
MAKE something DIFFERENT
MAKE something INNOVATIVE
MAKE something AWESOMESAUCE
