http://makeymakey.com/piano/
Write Your Name & Song On Nametag
Add your song here:
https://padlet.com/coffeechug/nccemixtape
Makey Makey
Condensed Invention Literacy
Makey Makey
Condensed Invention Literacy
http://bit.do/makeyPD
www.coffeeforthebrain.com/ncce19
HERE ISYOUR CHALLENGE
If you choose to accept!
CANYOU MAKETHIS “IMPOSSIBLE” PAPER
FOLD?
• You get only the following:
• 1 piece of paper
• 1 pair of scissors
“IMPOSSIBLE” PAPER FOLD SOLUTION
This isn’t a show up and
throw up presentation.
I have one personal goal…….
To not feel like this about this workshop
But to feel like this!
Goals
• Make a new friend(s) across the region
• Imagine and build creative circuits

• Enhance prior learning through interactive elements

• Understand importance of play and open ended
challenges
• Infuse play with the classroom to reach learning goals

• Have fun!
Closed
Start
Open
Ended
Find A New Friend
New Friend Challenge
New Friend Challenge
Create a unique high five for only you and your friend!
Needs to have 4 transitions
New Friend Challenge
Assignment: Draw four quadrants on your index card, and
answer the following questions in each one.
What was your favorite
toy as a child? What did
you like about the way it
was designed?
What is the mindset of
an inventor? How do
they see the world?
What do they think
about?
How do young people
benefit when they’re
able to think like an
inventor, designer or
“Maker”?
What types of words do
inventors and creators
use? What kinds of
questions do they ask?
Improve?Innovate.
Photo by Tim Flach
Hacker noun  ˈha-kər 
One who combines excellence, playfulness,
cleverness and exploration into performed activities
How might we, as educators, offer students the chance to
not simply encounter, memorize, reiterate, and or perform
“knowledge”, but to truly use knowledge in new ways?
Amy Burvall
Reality is perception:
not a reflection of truth
S T E A M
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math
STEAM is really dancing
between the disciplines
THINK

OUTSIDE

THE BOX
–Claude Debussy
Music is the silence between the notes
Talk < Action
"There is no such thing as genuine knowledge and 
fruitful understanding except as the offspring of doing."
~ John Dewey (1859-1952)
Education reformer
We express who we are
through what we make.
Learning is about stuff that sticks.
Photo by Caleb Woods
Draw a Circuit
Circuit must include a light, battery, and switch.
Build a Circuit
Circuit must include a light, battery, and switch.
Ponder This
“Which provided a more powerful learning experience for
you…
 (1) drawing a circuit on a piece of paper or…
 (2) actually building a circuit using the PlayDoh, LED, battery,
and aluminum foil?”
•
Ponder This
“Which provided a more powerful learning experience for
you…
 (1) drawing a circuit on a piece of paper or…
 (2) actually building a circuit using the PlayDoh, LED, battery,
and aluminum foil?” 

WHY is the experience of building the circuit was more
powerful??
Your hands know a lot more
than you think they know!
Photo by Jeremy Yap
Making is an energy that relates
the parts to make a new whole!
Photo by Jeremy Yap
Current Reality?
MORE
Change your PERCEPTION?
The scandal of education is
that every time you teach
something, you deprive a
child of the pleasure and
benefit of discovery.
Seymour Papert
Let’s get MAKEY!
Demo or Die

Classroom Application
Maker Ninja Tool
PROTOTYPE
PROTOTYPE
• LOOKS LIKE PROTOTYPE 

• WORKS LIKE PROTOTYPE
PROTOTYPE RUBRIC
• KEEP BAR LOW

• LET KIDS SET EXPECATIONS

• EXPLAIN ON NOTECARD
THEIR LOOKS LIKE

• CREATIVITY OPERATES
WITHIN CONSTRAINTS
Challenge
Create a solution (i.e. build a prototype) to solve
an actual problem you or your team have. The
problem you’d like to address might be from
work or home life.

If you’d rather build something whimsical, you are hereby granted permission to do so!
Rethink the way the world works
We don’t need to invent something new, but
apply new capabilities to do an old thing so
much better that it inevitably changes
And Remember This!
https://flipgrid.com/ncce2019
Demo or Die
• Each team (or individual) will follow this process when presenting:

• Explain what you intended to invent.

• Share what inspired your invention. 

• Explain what you actually made.

• Demonstrate your invention.

• Audience asks questions. 

• Everyone applauds.
Wrapping It Up
Children are
current people
• More than future
employers

• More than an ID # on
a spreadsheet

• More than making a
school look good
Children
matter NOW!
Think Global. Act Local
Don’t Need
• Rubrics and instructions

• Worksheets

• Bells

• Quizzes and Tests

• Desks In rows
Do Need
• Empowered Educators

• Supportive culture

• Appropriate materials

• A good prompt

• Sufficient time
What will your story be?
1+1=[[(9×3)/3]/3]-1
MAKE something
DIFFERENT
MAKE something
INNOVATIVE
MAKE something
AWESOMESAUCE
Ideas need to
become things!
Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one
thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Now What?
Action Goal
Write down one thing you plan to experiment with
between now and end of October.
Accountability
Exchange Goals & High Five
Session Feedback
What was something
unexpected you
learned today?
What do you need to
move forward in the
work?
What lingering
questions do you still
have?

2. ncce 2019 makey makey