making your own mini maker faire
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Have you started a STEM program at your school? In your district? Are you ready to show it off? Maybe you just want to get started with Making, Coding and Robotics. A Maker Faire can be any size and can be held anywhere. I talk about how to get started with Makers Ed, what I've been using, show examples including great resources.TRANSCRIPT
“Making" Your Own Mini Maker FaireOctober 27, 2014
Susan Wells, ISTE MLN PD Chair & Founder of
What is a Maker Faire?
Celebrate…• Arts• Crafts• Engineering• Science projects• Do-It-Yourself Projects• Invention • Creativity• Resourcefulness
Students as creative thinkers and problem solvers We tinker to learnWe make to learnApproach a problem not to find the correct solution but to find the whole of the problemCollaborate, work as a team, share what you know, share your thinking, share your challenges and successesDesign thinkingMath, science, invention, writing, and literacy with purpose and authenticity
Consider learning objectives for event...lesson…club…camp…
Find a Maker Faire- http://makerfaire.com/map/How to Make a Maker Faire-http://makerfaire.com/mini/
Students collaborate and plan projects
Hands-on creating Found and recycled items, Heat gun & foam, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, Legos, Duplos, Kapla Blocks, 3D PrinterCurate iMovie, LiveBinderShare Twitter, Skype, Youtube, EdmodoAugmented Reality/QR Codes i-Nigma & Aurasma Micro processors Makey-Makey Arduino Boards, and Rasberry-PiRobotics BirdBrain Technologies “Finch”, Lego Mindstorms , EZ-Robot
Camp “Mini Maker Faire” Resources
“The Finch”, Birdbrain Technologies…stays tethered…$99Lego “Mindstorms”EZ-Robot, very affordable
Robotics
Web-based and App-basedIntroduce it and then watch your students take offAmazing & powerful with fragile readers and ELL/ESL students*Code.org*Hour of Code• Angry Birds & Flappy Birds• Light Bot• Tynker• Kodable (free)• Hopscotch (free)• Daisy the Dinosaur (free)• Cargo-bot (free)
Coding
• Honor individuals first then the process, student choice, student direction…Quality takes time
• Bring in the community, so many out there to help, local organizations, not-for-profits, museums, corporations, retired business people, building supply
• Connect to Standards• Communicate!
Robotics, Coding, Textiles, Recycled & Found Items…Design, Create, Think!
Susan Wells@wellssusanEmail: [email protected] EdTechGreenhttp://www.campedtechgreen.com/
Questions? Thoughts? Ideas?