Make Yourself Into A Maker: Builds 1-3 Day 2

Pre-Geek activity

HackerOne who combines excellence, playfulness, cleverness and exploration into performed activities

Reality is perception: not a reflection of truth

Improve?Innovate.

How do we do school better?different

What do we mean by learning?

How many of you refused to put a credit card into a machine 15 years ago?

Be honest!

😂💩🦄

😂💩🦄

Lol!

Why is this important?

Attention

S T E A MScience, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math

Stop Talking Excuses And Make!

STEAM

How many of our college graduates have a better answer?

Can’t be what we don’t see9 million US STEM workers in 2015

20.4% faster employment growth

29% higher earnings than non-STEM workers

At least 75% have a college degree

STEM degrees attract higher earnings regardless of career

Certified ethical hacker $71,000

Facebook app industry $58,000

Mechatronics engineer $85,000

Mechatronics technician $47,000

Surgical technician $42,000

Perfusionist

$65-135,000

The Story of a Bald Dude

Consumption

Voice

Robot

20th Century

Creation

Agency

Human

Now

Kids are curious…duh

Did you know Frankie cannot see the colour of her skin? She will never know what her skin looks like!

Why do we have two eyes and not one?

If we stick out our middle toe is that the same as our middle finger?

How did mom make me?

So why do we shoot down their questions?

Short-term gain vs.

long-term development

I dare you to look into our school, take a look at the the classrooms and tell me that they look inviting, because they do not. Bland walls, rough carpet, stiff desks that were assembled into shabby groups placed sporadically throughout the room. If you want kids to enjoy and participate in school, is it not logical to make them feel comfortable in this environment? High Tech High out in California is an extremely successful school and renowned for its pioneering with student voice, and it has a very unique setup when it comes to the classrooms, they have glass walls and easily movable furniture. They foster the kind of environment that makes students feel at home and interested, not like they are in a bland, pastel prison.

PASTEL PRISON

Learning Streets

Whatever happened to just plain old good teaching and learning?

G O A TGood Ol’ Ass Teaching

1. Teach with Passion

What is your ‘wow’?

Differentiation for Teachers

Don’t be so focused on today’s problems that we put off planning for tomorrow’s

opportunities

TeachingNot sure why we do this job sometimes, but it sure gives us a damn good purpose to get out of bed in the morning!

@coffeechugbooks

To create student first culture, you must put them second and treat teachers as first.

2. Tackle Real World Problems

3. Find out what students are curious about

4. Open Box Experiences

THINKOUTSIDETHE BOX

5. Hold onto your crayons

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

Erica Bauermeister

Why will I be successful in this class even if I've never been successful before?

If students had a choice to go to

your classroom, would you have an

empty room?

If students had a choice to go to your school, would you have an

empty school?

2013-2014

Why do I share all of this with you today?

Formal learning often doesn’t make sense without informal learning.

Obstacles

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

Luis Escobar

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Just start.

Do s#!t that scares you!

K.I.S.S.

DIY < DITDIY

We have not succeeded in answering all of your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

Omni Magazine, 1992

Curious

Perspective

Persistent

Playful

Sharing

Risk-takers

Ideas need to become

things!


Day 1 Outcomes:1. What is a makerspace?

2. How do begin to create the culture of making in our school?

3. How do we actually make and fulfill all requirements of the job?

4. How do we create meaningful learning with simple materials?

Day 1 Feedback and Thoughts

●How do we continue this work back in our schools?


●How do we develop a plan to get others involved in our school?


●Application to personal classroom/situation

●How to mesh this work with standards

●Transfer this approach to all subjects not just science and math.


1st Grade Classroom

COMPLEX COMMUNICATION

CREATIVITY

COLLABORATION

FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTABILITY

PRODUCTIVITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY


Think About

•Maker culture in classroom•Start small i.e. after testing, before holiday

•Slow integration• It is okay to step away from standards and do direct focus on 21st century skills

•How can this benefit standards when we provide time to explicitly teach these skills?

Resources

●School newsletter

●Donors Choose

●SCRA/RDA Grants

●Phone Calls - by kids and you!

●AEA Materials

●You have to know what you NEED and HOW you will use it.

●Prove things yourself!

●Do the work and money will appear!

Curious

Perspective

Persistent

Playful

Sharing

Risk-takers

Our students’ dreams are bigger than the standards we have to cover.

Pernille Ripp

We cannot let the maintenance of compliance suffocate the creative

joys of learning and play.

Ideas need to become

things!


Day 2 Outcomes:1. How do we share our work?2. How do we create based on a single material item?3. How do we create based on a theme/standard?4. How does this work translate to my building?

8:15-8:30 Coffee8:30 - 9:30 Feedback Discussion9:30 - 10:30: Continue work on cardboard10:30 - 11:00 - Show and Tell11:00 - 11:30 - Build Challenge #211:30-12:30 LUNCH12:30-2:30 Build Challenge #22:30 - 3:00 Show and Tell, Next Steps, Follow Up, Staying Connected

Closure and Next Steps

Closure Tasks

●Day 2 Feedback Form

●Instructables Submission

●I will email everyone with time to work with you at your school

●Continue to share ideas to the project submission

●Stay connected on Google Album, Facebook Group, Voxer, #maker9

By end of the workshop what would be the best

outcome you’d hope for?

Imagine this workshop is widely successful, what will have changed for the better?

Suppose we look at the workshop as a step in a larger initiative, what’s the ultimate

goal?

Take out a piece of paper

Challenge: If you were given a an unlimited budget to do a

project for government, mission, business…….

Write down three names of people in your school who

you want to help do this work.

Ponder ThisHow many of you think your

name came up more than once?

If not, then….When are you going to change your behaviors and actions to become a

leader like the names of the people you wrote down?

You did not wake up today to be mediocre.

If you were able to believe in 🎅 for 8 years, you can believe in yourself for 🕐.

MAKE somethingDIFFERENT

MAKE somethingINNOVATIVE

MAKE somethingAWESOMESAUCE

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