Maker Workshop Part 1: ITEC 2016

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Please go to http://coffeeforthebrain.com/maker/

1. Fill out the pre workshop Padlet2. Begin work on your nametag

www.coffeeforthebrain @coffeechugbooks aarmau@gmail.com

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

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?

Learning is about stuff that sticks

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

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 coolest classroom because

My object represents the students in my classroom because

My object represents my favorite teacher because

My object represents the culture of my building because

My object represents learning because

My object represents a great leader 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

Individual Build Time

Everyone Shares Vision

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

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