Education Forum: Learn by Doing and Transform Learning in Your Classroom
Open-ended questions are at the heart of maker training. Whether the "question" comes in the form of tinkering with random materials or, more literally, asking, these questions allow learners to explore possibilities, guide the story, and experiment. Yet supporting open learning can be difficult in an environment focused on “right answers” and results. This is especially true for “pre-made” educational materials, which can provide much-needed access to project-based education and, at the same time, stifle the creativity of open learning. Given this tension, how do maker educators, and the maker community in general, develop new resources for project-based learning with built-in opportunities for the kind of open-ended questions that foster curiosity and innovation?
By design, the Make: Education Forum was created to celebrate these issues and find solutions for their application. On September 23 and 24, we'll be joined by creative educators who are pushing the boundaries of the curriculum across all subject areas, testing new project-based models of learning, and helping their students innovate by giving them the freedom to ask the questions they want and it's time to discover solutions.
Join today and save on the Early Bird price!Here are some program highlights that are featured at the Make: Education Forum. Be sure to check out the full program list before the event!
Matt Zeigler - Imitation, modification, innovation: three steps to teaching fabricationWe'll be joined by teacher, artist, and creator Matt Zeigler, who leads the Bullis School's Innovation Lab in Maryland. Matt notes, “Many maker educators struggle with the idea of pre-packaged 'kit' projects, and many students struggle to come up with ideas when given open prompts and creative freedom. What is the value of a design challenge that leads to impossible or unrealistic solutions? Did a student who followed the step-by-step instructions really build a robot? »
In this session, Matt will discuss three modes of crafting; imitation, modification and innovation. Each of these three methods teaches different skills and requires familiarity with others to be successful. He will also share examples of these three methods, which can be learned for...
Open-ended questions are at the heart of maker training. Whether the "question" comes in the form of tinkering with random materials or, more literally, asking, these questions allow learners to explore possibilities, guide the story, and experiment. Yet supporting open learning can be difficult in an environment focused on “right answers” and results. This is especially true for “pre-made” educational materials, which can provide much-needed access to project-based education and, at the same time, stifle the creativity of open learning. Given this tension, how do maker educators, and the maker community in general, develop new resources for project-based learning with built-in opportunities for the kind of open-ended questions that foster curiosity and innovation?
By design, the Make: Education Forum was created to celebrate these issues and find solutions for their application. On September 23 and 24, we'll be joined by creative educators who are pushing the boundaries of the curriculum across all subject areas, testing new project-based models of learning, and helping their students innovate by giving them the freedom to ask the questions they want and it's time to discover solutions.
Join today and save on the Early Bird price!Here are some program highlights that are featured at the Make: Education Forum. Be sure to check out the full program list before the event!
Matt Zeigler - Imitation, modification, innovation: three steps to teaching fabricationWe'll be joined by teacher, artist, and creator Matt Zeigler, who leads the Bullis School's Innovation Lab in Maryland. Matt notes, “Many maker educators struggle with the idea of pre-packaged 'kit' projects, and many students struggle to come up with ideas when given open prompts and creative freedom. What is the value of a design challenge that leads to impossible or unrealistic solutions? Did a student who followed the step-by-step instructions really build a robot? »
In this session, Matt will discuss three modes of crafting; imitation, modification and innovation. Each of these three methods teaches different skills and requires familiarity with others to be successful. He will also share examples of these three methods, which can be learned for...
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