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“Making" Your Own Mini Maker FaireOctober 27, 2014
Susan Wells, ISTE MLN PD Chair & Founder of
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What is a Maker Faire?
Celebrate…• Arts• Crafts• Engineering• Science projects• Do-It-Yourself Projects• Invention • Creativity• Resourcefulness
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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…
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Find a Maker Faire- http://makerfaire.com/map/How to Make a Maker Faire-http://makerfaire.com/mini/
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Students collaborate and plan projects
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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
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“The Finch”, Birdbrain Technologies…stays tethered…$99Lego “Mindstorms”EZ-Robot, very affordable
Robotics
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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
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• 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!
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Robotics, Coding, Textiles, Recycled & Found Items…Design, Create, Think!
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Susan Wells@wellssusanEmail: [email protected] EdTechGreenhttp://www.campedtechgreen.com/
Questions? Thoughts? Ideas?