Presentation from a Summit for Transformative Learning conference in St. Louis, MO. Primary theme was tinkering in the classroom, with a heavy "audience participation" component. :-)

1. ImageCredit:“Marbles”,NickHarrisviaFlickr,CCBY-SA2.0
Jim Tiffin Jr. - @JimTiffinJr
Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
Summit for Transformative Learning – MICDS
June 7 - 9, 2015

2. Plan for the Experience
Overview
– Personal Thoughts
– Team Up Preflection
– Some Tinkering
– Pause
– Some More Tinkering
– Thoughtful Reflection
Sharing
– Please tweet with the hashtags #STLinSTL &
#MakerEd

3. Experience Resources
Find the goodies we’ll talk about…
…and some we won’t …
…here at:
jamestiffinjr.com/presentations
(Look for the session “Run, Marble, Run” in
the 2015 list!)

4. Why Tinker?
“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way to
approach and solve problems through
direct experience, experimentation, and
discovery.”
Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager
Invent to Learn

5. Why Tinker?
“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way to
approach and solve problems through
direct experience, experimentation, and
discovery.”

6. Why Tinker?
“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way to
approach and solve problems through
direct experience, experimentation, and
discovery.”

7. Why Tinker?
“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way to
approach and solve problems through
direct experience, experimentation, and
discovery.”

8. Why Tinker?
“Tinkering is a mindset – a playful way to
approach and solve problems through
direct experience, experimentation, and
discovery.”

9. Why Make?
To Learn
Content
To Learn
to Learn
To Show
Learning

10. Why Make?
To Learn
Content
To Learn
to Learn
To Show
Learning

11. Why Make?
To Learn
Content
To Learn
to Learn
To Show
Learning

12. Less Me, More You!
A Visible Thinking Routine
– Parts, Purposes, Complexities
Image Credit: “Kids playing with the Exploratorium’s marble wall”, Matt Mechtley via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

13. Your Prompt
“Build a marble run that gets the marble
into the cup as slow as possible.”
(It’s really a marble walk, actually )

14. Less Me, More You!
Preflection
– Think to yourself…

15. Less Me, More You!
Team Up
– Find your partner from the SPARK

16. Workshop-wide D.I.T.
Sharing on Post-It Notes
– What is working?
– What is not working?
Image Credit: “Office Cube with Post-It Notes- 20130122-9568.jpg”, Michael Arrighi via Flickr, CC BY 2.0

17. Your Prompt
Build a marble run that gets the marble
into the cup as slow as possible.
(It’s really a marble walk, actually )

18. Tinker Pause
Take a stroll to see Post-it Notes and
other marble runs… err, walks.

19. Back to Tinkering
Build a marble run that gets the marble
into the cup as slow as possible.

20. Debrief
From a participant’s point of view…
Image Credits: “Like”, Thomas Angerman via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
“Wishing You All A Happy Mother’s Day”, Dawn via Flickr, CC BY 2.0
“Wonder Woman”, Julian Fong via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

21. Questions
What do want to ask me?
What do you want to ask the room?

22. Thank You
Thank you for sharing your time and ideas
with me!