Make Yourself Into A Maker: Builds 1-3 Day 2

Hacker
One who combines excellence, playfulness,
cleverness and exploration into performed activities

Reality is perception: not a
reﬂection of truth

How do we do school better?different

How many of you refused to put a credit card into
a machine 15 years ago?
Be honest!

S T E A M
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math

Stop
Talking
Excuses
And
Make!
S
T
E
A
M

How many of our college
graduates have a better answer?

Can’t be what we don’t see
9 million US STEM workers in 2015

20.4% faster employment growth

29% higher earnings than non-STEM workers

At least 75% have a college degree

STEM degrees attract higher earnings regardless of career

Certiﬁed ethical hacker
$71,000
Facebook app industry
$58,000
Mechatronics engineer
$85,000
Mechatronics technician
$47,000
Surgical technician
$42,000
Perfusionist
$65-135,000

Consumption
Voice
Robot
20th Century
Creation
Agency
Human
Now

Did you know Frankie cannot
see the colour of her skin? She
will never know what her skin
looks like!
Why do we have two eyes and
not one?
If we stick out our middle toe is that
the same as our middle ﬁnger?
How did mom make me?

So why do we shoot down their
questions?

Short-term gain
vs.
long-term development

I dare you to look into our school, take a look at the the
classrooms and tell me that they look inviting, because they do
not. Bland walls, rough carpet, stiff desks that were assembled
into shabby groups placed sporadically throughout the room. If
you want kids to enjoy and participate in school, is it not logical
to make them feel comfortable in this environment? High Tech
High out in California is an extremely successful school and
renowned for its pioneering with student voice, and it has a
very unique setup when it comes to the classrooms, they have
glass walls and easily movable furniture. They foster the kind of
environment that makes students feel at home and interested,
not like they are in a bland, pastel prison.

Whatever happened to just plain
old good teaching and learning?

G O A T
Good Ol’ Ass Teaching

Don’t be so focused on today’s
problems that we put off
planning for tomorrow’s
opportunities

Teaching
Not sure why we do this job sometimes, but it
sure gives us a damn good purpose to get out
of bed in the morning!

@coffeechugbooks
To create student first culture, you must put them second and treat
teachers as first.

3. Find out what students
are curious about

Adults need to have fun so children will want to
grow up.
Erica Bauermeister

Why will I be successful in this class even
if I've never been successful before?

If students had a choice to go to
your classroom, would you have an
empty room?

If students
had a choice
to go to your
school, would
you have an
empty school?

Why do I share all of this with
you today?

Formal learning often doesn’t make
sense without informal learning.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your
eyes off the goal.
Luis Escobar

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one
thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

We have not succeeded in answering all of your problems.
The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set
of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as
confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a
higher level and about more important things.
Omni Magazine, 1992

Curious
Perspective
Persistent
Playful
Sharing
Risk-takers

Day 1 Outcomes:
1. What is a makerspace?
2. How do begin to create the culture of making in our school?
3. How do we actually make and fulﬁll all requirements of the
job?
4. How do we create meaningful learning with simple materials?

Day 1 Feedback and Thoughts
●How do we continue this work back in our schools?

●How do we develop a plan to get others involved in our school?

●Application to personal classroom/situation
●How to mesh this work with standards
●Transfer this approach to all subjects not just science and math.

1st Grade Classroom

COMPLEX COMMUNICATION
CREATIVITY
COLLABORATION
FLEXIBILITY AND ADAPTABILITY
PRODUCTIVITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Think About
•Maker culture in classroom
•Start small i.e. after testing, before holiday
•Slow integration
• It is okay to step away from standards and do direct focus on
21st century skills
•How can this benefit standards when we provide time to
explicitly teach these skills?

Resources
●School newsletter
●Donors Choose
●SCRA/RDA Grants
●Phone Calls - by kids and
you!
●AEA Materials
●You have to know what
you NEED and HOW you
will use it.
●Prove things yourself!
●Do the work and money
will appear!

Our students’ dreams are bigger than the
standards we have to cover.
Pernille Ripp

We cannot let the maintenance of
compliance suffocate the creative
joys of learning and play.

Day 2 Outcomes:
1. How do we share our work?
2. How do we create based on a single material item?
3. How do we create based on a theme/standard?
4. How does this work translate to my building?

8:15-8:30 Coffee
8:30 - 9:30 Feedback Discussion
9:30 - 10:30: Continue work on cardboard
10:30 - 11:00 - Show and Tell
11:00 - 11:30 - Build Challenge #2
11:30-12:30 LUNCH
12:30-2:30 Build Challenge #2
2:30 - 3:00 Show and Tell, Next Steps, Follow Up,
Staying Connected

Closure Tasks
●Day 2 Feedback Form
●Instructables Submission
●I will email everyone with time to work with you at your school
●Continue to share ideas to the project submission
●Stay connected on Google Album, Facebook Group, Voxer, #maker9

By end of the workshop
what would be the best
outcome you’d hope for?

Imagine this workshop is
widely successful, what will
have changed for the better?

Suppose we look at the
workshop as a step in a larger
initiative, what’s the ultimate
goal?

Challenge: If you were given a
an unlimited budget to do a
project for government,
mission, business…….

Write down three names of
people in your school who
you want to help do this work.

Ponder This
How many of you think your
name came up more than
once?

If not, then….
When are you going to change your
behaviors and actions to become a
leader like the names of the people you
wrote down?

You did not wake up today to
be mediocre.

If you were able to believe in 🎅 for 8
years, you can believe in yourself for 🕐.

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