Maker Education: An Idea Whose
Time Has Come

@JackieGerstein
http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/

https://experientiallearning.makes.org/popcorn/1fjc

School for Hackers: The do-it-yourself
movement revives learning by doing.

➔Theoretical Background ➔The Educator as
a Maker Educator ➔Example Activities: From Puppets to Robots & Writer’s Workshop ➔Some Observations ➔Resources

Theoretical Background

Maker Education and Experiential Education

Is It Project-Based Learning, Maker
Education or Just Projects?

● Is there an authentic
and relevant context directly related to the students’ lives? Does the educator incorporate student voice and interests in its conception and development? In its implementation, do the students have permission and freedom to go in a direction that interests them? In its implementation, does the teacher fade into the background with students coming into the foreground of thinking, doing, and discussing? Are there the venues, space, time, strategies for reflection so students can construct their own meanings and understandings?

Tinkering and Technological Imagination in
Educational Technology

Making and Innovation: Balancing Skills-Development,
Scaffolding, and Free Play

● Making, creating, innovating, experimenting
are needed now more than ever in this rapidly evolving world and our children are severely lacking in these skills ● If these skills are to be integrated into formal and informal learning settings, some direct instruction and scaffolding will need to occur.

http://www.thinglink.com/scene/530497733706907648 MAKE STEAM: Giving Maker
Education Some Context

http://www.thinglink.com/scene/529031635128025090

http://youtu.be/Dnf_80JHx04

http://puppets2robots.wikispaces.com/

http://puppets2robots.wikispaces.com/The+Mechanical+Arm

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/600421 http://www.tryengineering.org/bionic.php Online Games to
Learn About Robotic Arms http://www.wonderville.ca/asset/robot-factory

http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/robothand/assembl.html

http://puppets2robots.wikispaces.com/Shadow+Puppetry

http://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator

Robotic
Prototyping
http://puppets2robots.wikispaces.com/Robotic+Prototyping

http://www.artsandbots.com/

Build on Online Robot as
a Prototype 1. http://www.abcya.com/make_a_robot.htm 2. http://www.freeonlinegames.com/game/build-a-robot 3. http://www.addictinggames.com/funny-games/buildarobot3.jsp

Programmable Robotics
http://puppets2robots.wikispaces.com/Programmable+Robots

http://artsandbots.posthaven.com/tag/Presentation%20Slides

Maker Education Meets the Writers’
Workshop

STEAM and Maker Education: Inclusive,
Engaging, Self-Differentiating

Participation is driven by intrinsic
motivation

Maker education lends itself to
100% engagement by 100% participants almost 100% of the time.

Maker education is self-differentiating.

Age levels and gender are
blurred; does not affect participation, engagement, and interest.

Maker education activities are multidisciplina
and authentic.

Maker education reinforces and teaches
resilience.

Resources

http://www.amazon.com/Educator-as-Maker-ebook/dp/B00LYLQT0Y/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405867667&sr=1-2

http://www.inventtolearn.com/

http://www.pinterest.com/jackiegerstein/maker-and-hacker-activities-
for-young-people/