Presentation from a workshop at the Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence 2015 conference in Memphis, TN. The workshop's goal was to provide participants with an introductory experience that fused MakerEd and design thinking principles together as a complimentary union.

1. MAKING:
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&
Jim Tiffin Jr. - @JimTiffinJr
Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence – PDS
June 9 - 10, 2015

2. Plan for the Day
• Overview
Background
Making
More Making
Even More Making
Reflection
• Sharing
Please share any tweets with the hashtags
#micon15 #MakerEd #dtk12chat

3. Resources
Save your paper!
Info about today’s
experience can be found at:
jamestiffinjr.com/presentations
(Look for a session titled “Making: Heart & Soul)

4. MakerEd Ideas
Maker-Centered
Learning Should
Create…
 Opportunities for
collaboration and
idea exchanging
 Pathways for
application of skills
and knowledge
Not a complete list by any means!
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5. Design Thinking
People-Centered
Problem Solving
 The user is the
focus at the
heart of the
work
 Empathy
drives
need-
finding
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6. Prompt for Your User
With me,
your “teacher”
as your user…
“Create an LED lamp.”

7. Prompt for Your User
Now you,
yourself, will
be your user…
“Make an LED circuit on an index card.”

8. Now our last
user – the kids
at Le Bonheur
Children’s Hospital
“Make an LED card to give to the kids at
the hospital.”
Prompt for Your User

9. Debrief
Rose,
Thorn,
Bud
Protocol
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10. Questions
Questions for me?
Questions for the room?

11. Thank You
Thank you for sharing your time, ideas, and
enthusiasm with me.
On behalf of the kids at Le Bonheur,
thanks for sharing your talents and care.