8.1 Makers and Making in the classroomThis week we will focus on the following:
Required Readings / Viewing |
What are maker spaces and maker faires?
How can media and digital literacies be incorporated into maker spaces? |
Activating a Maker Mindset
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What is Maker Education?
Making is a stance toward learning - so says Sylvia Libow Martinez in this DML Central article and interview with Howard Rheingold. You can also examine why making is essential to learning from this Edutopia article.
Making is a stance toward learning - so says Sylvia Libow Martinez in this DML Central article and interview with Howard Rheingold. You can also examine why making is essential to learning from this Edutopia article.
"Messing, tinkering, building projects that actually interest learners is about developing skills of autonomous learning, cultivating an appreciation for and fluency in using learning communities and experienced guides, and practice at thinking big."
Howard Rheingold
Students can and should be scientists, artists, engineers and writers today.
The affordable and accessible technology of the Maker Movement makes learning by doing a realistic approach for schools.
Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager (from SmartBrief Why the Maker Movement Matters to Educators)
Howard Rheingold
Students can and should be scientists, artists, engineers and writers today.
The affordable and accessible technology of the Maker Movement makes learning by doing a realistic approach for schools.
Sylvia Libow Martinez & Gary Stager (from SmartBrief Why the Maker Movement Matters to Educators)
So what are valid forms of 'maker education'?
How can a site like Instructables support making in the classroom? What about Mozilla Hive? Maker Festival? or Coding in the classroom? or 3D printing?
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More VR videos are found on the Digital Bodies site.
Since today is #GlobalMakerDay, lets get into a 'making mentality' and create with purpose.
Play to learn with lego, postcard colouring, Flipgrid video response, laser cut stickers and green screen. As you play, think about how this 'making' model could work in your classroom.
Watch and learn from makers who will share on the #GlobalMakerDay live stream.
Global Maker Day - Live streaming video sessions |
Making in Flipgrid |
Connect to FlipgridPart of today's media making environment includes open and accessible video response systems such as Flipgrid. The option for ONE free grid to share student responses can be a powerful teaching/learning tool where media and digital literacies can become integrated into the access, use and create sequence.
Post a response if you'd like. This grid will CLOSE and become password protected after today's class. |
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Take a look at the #GlobalMakerDay presentation created using BUNCEE.
Resources/Links:
- Maker Education Organization
- Maker Kids - Canadian link
- What Works? The Student Filmmaker: Enhancing Literacy Skills through Digital Video Production - LearnTeachLead pdf file
- Cardboard Challenges: No Tech / Low Cost Maker Education, Jackie Gerstein, User Generated Education Blog post
- Start Now, But Start Small, Aaron Vanderwerff, Teaching Channel
- Resources for Maker Education, Edutopia - list and links packed with resources for teachers
- Sylvia Martinez web site - links to Make It, Wear It, Learn It
- Making the Case for Making in the Classroom - video recording of Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager for K12 Online Conference
- 7 Fun and Easy Lesson Plans to Jumpstart 3D Printing in Your Classroom, MakerBot by Jessica Adams - includes full plans and resources for cutaway earth model, meterological model of hurricane Patricia, freight car and train, bridge building, snowflake machine, Aztec & Mayan structures, fraction game. You can find more at MakerBot Learning
- Indigenous Worldviews Inspires THIS Classroom MAKERSPACE - a blog post by Ontario educator Zoe Branigan Pipe, April 23, 2016. Definitely worth a read!
