The Classroom as Makerspace
Published on Apr 12, 2016
Presentation on building maker mentality into classroom practice. Prepared for TCEA TECSIG spring 2016 meeting.
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
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"The tool(s) used are a whole lot less important than what is produced and the intellectual processes employed."
--Stager & Martinez, Invent to Learn
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questions
Solution design
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Ownership (pride)
"...a litmus test for me these days when I ask myself whether something is worth doing with students. I want to know, will this give students something they'll want to carry around in their wallet and show to other people? Will they own this knowledge in a way that makes them proud to show it off? What have they made or done today that gives them a story to tell -- to their friends, to their families, to the world?" Tanya Baker
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creating
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Failure
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improvement
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(more than STEAM)
(3) Geography. The student uses geographic tools to answer geographic questions. The student is expected to:
(B) pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns for various world regions and countries shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases;
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Questions?
Actions?
What about the stuff?!
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Respond
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Resources
- Invent to Learn -- S. Martinez/G. Stager
- A More Beautiful Question -- W. Berger
- Most Likely to Succeed -- T. Dintersmith/T. Wagner
- http://rightquestion.org
- http://makezine.com/
- http://www.instructables.com/
- http://diy.org
