EMMA visits Shaftsbury Elementary
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EMMA visits Shaftsbury Elementary
Shaftsbury Elementary School Agenda
1:00 Introduction - What would you make� The Power of Maker Centered Learning
1:15 Introduce Today’s Maker Stations
Station 1 K-2 Teachers - Wind Tunnel Challenges� Station 2 Gr 3-4 Teacher Wind Spinner Challenge� Station 3 Gr 5-6 Teachers Design Thinking - Make a Wind Tunnel �
2:15 - 2:30 Reflect, Debrief and Share
2:30 - Envision Your Maker Space� What do you need to take the next step towards this Vision! � Let’s Start Planning the Next Step
Morning:��Tour Shaftsbury Maker Space�Set up Tools
Cricut Maker� Makey Makey Exhibits� Wind Tunnel
Set up CNC Mill and Train Chris to use it��Consultations with Deb, Jim, Chris�
If you had the time, the skill, the money, the mentoring …...
WHAT would you MAKE?
Introductions
Maker Centered Learning enables you to�THINK with your HANDS
“...our bodies and minds are connected.
We get excited about touching and feeling an idea that at one moment resides only in our minds and the next it’s in our hands.”�Azi Jamalian Columbia University��“...sometimes our hands know before our minds know.”� Jay Silver, PHD - Founder of Joy Labz�
The Toaster Project
How might we use our Makerspace to help our students develop science and engineering practices?
Station 1: K-2 teachers
Find a partner to complete the challenge with.
Watch everyone test their solution.
Reflect as a group.
Repeat with the next Challenge.
How might we use our Makerspace to practice and demonstrate transferable skills.
Station 2: Creating Wind Spinners
Learn to use Cricut Cutter to create different patterns for your Wind Spinners.
Use materials available to prototype various Wind Spinners as an openers to a discussion about Wind Energy. What type of questions might we generate during this maker activity?
Learn to use Cricut Maker/Explorer to cut different shapes for your wind spinners.
Web Site: �Design.cricut.com
Username
createmakelearn@learningwithlucie.net
Transferable Skills
Transferable skills articulated in Vermont’s Educational Quality Standards:
How might we create use our makerspace in support of student agency?
Station 2: Grade 5-6 teachers
Use Design Thinking to Make a Wind Tunnel as a learning tool for your Makerspace.
How might Design Thinking help us build
a successful wind tube?
How might the design of our wind tube impact its function as a learning tool? Consider WHO you are designing for!
Maker Empowerment
A sensitivity to the designed dimension of objects and systems, along with the inclination and capacity to shape one’s world through building, tinkering, re/designing, or� hacking.
Capacity to CREATE
Inclination� to MAKE
Sensitivity
to DESIGN
Maker�Empowerment
What parts of this ‘make’ contributed to a feeling of empowerment or agency?
Debrief�Reflect
Share
Dr. Jackie Gerstein
Create a Musical�Wind Chime using Circuits
Introduce Energy Stick
Introduce Makey Makey
Code a Musical Harvest Display
Challenge: Create and Code a Musical Wind Chime
Extend Learning�Challenge
Can you create a wind spinner design that�will light an LED?
Reflect
Reflection Questions:
What worked?
What Went Wrong?
What Will I Do Next Time?
Blog Post -Reflection as Part of Maker Centered Learning
Maker Empowerment
A sensitivity to the designed dimension of objects and systems, along with the inclination and capacity to shape one’s world through building, tinkering, re/designing, or� hacking.
Capacity to CREATE
Inclination� to MAKE
Sensitivity
to DESIGN
Maker�Empowerment
Which Transferrable Skills do you see here?
BLOG Post - (short video) �and (Coding, Prototype Video)
Transferrable Skills
Envision
Tour Shaftsbury Maker Space
What’s there now?
What could be there?
How can this space be an extension of your classroom?
Framing the Conversation around Maker Spaces
Think about WHY
A makerspace should ….
Think about HOW
Types of Makes…..
Think about WHAT
A makerspace can be…� Or A Makerspace can have ....
Think about WHO
Who is invited�Who feels welcomed
Who shows up
Who is empowered
St. Albans City
School Maker Lab
Makerspaces can
Shift Who
Gets to Learn
H.O.P.E. =
Hands On
Practical Education
Crossett
Brook
Library
Maker�Space
Mobile Makerspaces
Why?
Keep asking WHY! �
Share your experience, perception, or vision relating to this question.
Next Steps?
Contact info Blogs & Websites
Collaboration with Woodstock Elementary
EMMA’s Tool on Loan �Carvey CNC to �Woodstock Elementary. �
Goal: Develop a Case Study of Maker Tools in the Classroom ��Blog Post - Creating Gears in Grade 4
Creating Gears - Video Tutorial
UBD Lesson Created by Marcia Gauvin�Uphill Battle - How do Gears Help Us
Rest of slides are just
Resources that I’m organizing and thinking about
Experience 2D and 3D Communication Tools
Make a Name Plate for your IDEA Journal�Using Gravit.io
Framing the Conversation around Makerspaces
WHO? WHAT?
HOW? WHY?
WHAT is a makerspace?
HOW does learning happen in a makerspace?
WHO gets to make?
And probably the most important question of all! WHY?
What is a Makerspace?
Share your experience, perception, or vision relating to this question.
A Maker Space can be
A dedicated Space
A center within a Space
Space that Moves --Mobile Units
Space in the curriculum
Space in the Day
Space between your ears!
The many faces
of maker spaces
Wonder? Question?
Small Tweaks that can Create A Space for Designing, Creating, Making, Prototyping
WHO
Share your experience, perception, or vision relating to this question.
Who is Invited?
Who feels welcomed?
Who shows up?
Who is empowered?
Do you know this student?
Created by James Nagle and Don Taylor
Saint Michael’s College Main Street Middle School
Education on Air
Education On Air
Making can provide self assessment of personal interest, passions, values and skills that can become part of their personal learning plan profile.
Do you know this student?
Emily Pilloton DIYAbility
DIYAbility
How?
What tools and processes will we see in your space for creating and making.
Share your experience, perception, or vision relating to this question.
HOW? - Different Types of Makes
Make
Movies
St. Albans City School �MakerSpace
Laser Cutter
3D printer
Vinyl Cutter
Raspberry Pi
We have a Roland Camm-1 Servo Vinyl Cutter (left), a Makerbot Replicator 2x 3d Printer (middle), and a Retna Engraver Full Spectrum Laser (right)
Why?
Keep asking WHY! �
Share your experience, perception, or vision relating to this question.
Frameworks and Key Themes
Check out more frameworks below
Primary Benefits of Making
Agency � Find opportunity for � - Stuff Making - meaningful to you� - Community Making - meaningful to others
Character� Self making � - Competence � - Confidence
Thinking dispositions → supports patterns of thinking beneficial across disciplines
Ownership of� the process
In making ability → identity
Secondary benefits of making
Cultivate
MAKER Specific Knowledge / Skills
PERSONALIZED LEARNING
Personalized Learning is systems and approaches that deepen student learning by incorporating each student’s strengths, needs and interests - including student voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn - to achieve the goals of active engagement, academic success, and preparation for post-secondary opportunities. While often less formalized, personalized learning and personalized instructional approaches are critical to students in kindergarten through grade 6, as well.
Schools are expected to initiate a personalized learning process for students aligned with the school's academic expectations and students' pathways toward graduation.
Vermont �ACT 77
Education on Air
Education On Air
Portfolios are changing
MIT Admissions & Maker Portfolio
Watch Dr. Dawn Wendell talking at Maker Faire last May about why colleges care about Makers and read an interview with me about the new Maker Portfolios.
MIT's Dr. Dawn Wendell: When Makers Apply to College from Maker Faire on FORA.tv
Created by James Nagle and Don Taylor
Saint Michael’s College Main Street Middle School
Education on Air
Education On Air
Making can provide self assessment of personal interest, passions, values and skills that can become part of their personal learning plan profile.
Do you know this student?
What if….students used making as a way of completing a Personal Learning Plan Profile
Transferrable Skills
Statements about� Human Rights!
Making provides evidence for portfolios�Or Growth and Proficiency in Transferrable Skills
Making Learning Visible
Thinking Strategies
Products & Process
Clear and Effective Communication
Performance Indicators for Clear & Effective Communication:
a. Demonstrate organized and purposeful communication.
b. Use evidence and logic appropriately in communication.
c. Integrate information gathered from active speaking and listening.
d. Adjust communication based on the audience, context, and purpose.
e. Demonstrate effective expressive and receptive communication, including oral, written, multimedia and performance.
f. Use technology to further enhance and disseminate communication.
g. Collaborate effectively and respectfully.
Paper
Circuit
Cards
By
Crossett�Brook�Students
Crossett Brook
paper circuit statements
about �Human Rights
Short Interview
with Don Taylor
PLP Pathways
Main Street Middle School
Creating Evidence
What did you notice?
Why and how can having a space for making in your school provide students with an opportunity to
develop transferrable skills,
create evidence of proficiencies for portfolios, and
provide flexible pathways for their personal learning plans.
Making allows students to SHIFT where and how they learn.�Making provides flexible pathways towards Proficiency Based Graduation Requirements.
Louisa Ulrich Verderber
Presents Domestic
Wind Generator Design
MAKING SYRUP AT FAIRFIELD SCHOOL
MAKING SPACE for shifting the student experience towards personalized learning�
EMMA visits Proctor Elementary School
EMMA brings�Pinbox chassis�And playboards to
Proctor Elementary
Lucie kicking off a day of making with Proctor Elementary
Empathy Define the problem
How might we create a game that teaches someone something new?
Ideate / Brainstorming
From Empathy to Ideating
Effective Communication - two different learners
Sharing, Feedback, Testing
Proctor
Students present their finished pinball games as part of STEAM night
Clear and effective communication
Present to new audience
Using Design Thinking
and Paper Circuits to �Express our Understanding
About Conflict and Society
Make a statement expressing a concept you learned relating to conflict and society.
Build an illuminated card to stock in the gift shop in an area that is famous due to a historical conflict.
Depict a conflict in society in a way that will make somebody want to learn more.
IOLANI School Makerspace
The many faces
of maker spaces
Wonder? Question?
4 School Makerspaces in Hawaii
spaces where people can gather to
CREATE, INVENT, LEARN
Image from Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
What’s a Maker Space?
The best
maker space
is between
your ears!
~ Gary Stager
Join the Conversation
Living Learning Mobile - 6 months in Vermont 6 months around the US
Workshops & Conferences- Intro to Maker Space��Create Make Learn Blog (March is for Making Series)
Five Day + Summer Institute: Create Make Learn Summer Institute (Photos)�More info at www.CreateMakeLearn.org
Middle Grades Institute - A Maker Space as part of a Middle Grades Learning Environment
EMMA Visits to School - Moving the Conversation Forward in Your School
Maker Centered Learning - Graduate Course Marlboro College On Line (Fall Semester)
Inquiry Base and Project Based Learning - University of Vermont On Line (Fall Semester)
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Contact info Blogs & Websites