This document provides information about MakerKids, a makerspace for children. It includes quotes from children about lessons they've learned from making mistakes and working in groups. The document outlines MakerKids' approach which focuses on experiential learning through real tools in a dedicated space. Children teach each other and adults, and their work is exhibited for the community. Information is also provided about upcoming events to celebrate MakerKids' first anniversary.
I was invited by the Tampa Product Owners group to give a lecture and create a workshop on Experience Design and Journey mapping. I emphasized the importance of sketching in my process and incited the group to draw their ideas throughout the session.
I was invited by the Teen Business Challenge to give a presentation on creating minimum viable products. The exercise forced me to utilize objects the students would be familiar with and illustrate how prototyping has been integral in business for the last 100 years. I then lead the group in a workshop to help them create paper prototypes.
I was invited with Professor Andy Gold from HCC by the University of Tampa MBA program to deliver a lecture and workshop on Design Thinking and how to apply it to rapid mobile app prototyping. We coached the students through a means analysis and then utilized their various skill sets to prototype new mobile app ideas.
Learning Technologies can help improve effectiveness inside and outside the classroom. Technology should make your life easier; if it makes it harder, maybe you're not doing it right.
I was invited by the Tampa Product Owners group to give a lecture and create a workshop on Experience Design and Journey mapping. I emphasized the importance of sketching in my process and incited the group to draw their ideas throughout the session.
I was invited by the Teen Business Challenge to give a presentation on creating minimum viable products. The exercise forced me to utilize objects the students would be familiar with and illustrate how prototyping has been integral in business for the last 100 years. I then lead the group in a workshop to help them create paper prototypes.
I was invited with Professor Andy Gold from HCC by the University of Tampa MBA program to deliver a lecture and workshop on Design Thinking and how to apply it to rapid mobile app prototyping. We coached the students through a means analysis and then utilized their various skill sets to prototype new mobile app ideas.
Learning Technologies can help improve effectiveness inside and outside the classroom. Technology should make your life easier; if it makes it harder, maybe you're not doing it right.
This was the presentation shared with districts by Carl Hooker, Director of Instructional Technology on April 17th when districts visited Westlake High School
Background on what infographics are. How they're being used (or not) in higher education. Challenges and suggestions for success and improved outcomes.
This was the presentation shared with districts by Carl Hooker, Director of Instructional Technology on April 17th when districts visited Westlake High School
Background on what infographics are. How they're being used (or not) in higher education. Challenges and suggestions for success and improved outcomes.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
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13. • It’s OK to fail
• Experiential
Learning - Learn by
doing
• Choose to celebrate
Making (not just
what they’ve made)
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21. Advice from Maker Kids for other Maker Kids
“Mistakes aren’t really bad cause you can learn not to do your mistake again”
- Adam, age 8
“Make a plan before you start” - Blaede, age 10
“Be patient when working in a group!”
"Make sure when you’re drilling something, you put something underneath it so
you don’t drill through the table.”
- Amelia & Maceo, age 11
“At first when I came here, I had no idea how any of this electric stuff worked,
and I’m just like, how I am going to be able to make this? But over time with my
mistakes, I realized it gets easier and it comes to me and sometimes making a
mistake actually teaches you something – why something doesn’t work.”
- Joe, age 11
“Get one thing working well first, instead of trying too many things at the same
time” - Julia, age 12
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28. MakerKids' Recipe:
1. Dedicated space
2. Real Tools
3. Process over Product
4. Interest Driven
5. Kids Teaching Kids
6. Kids Teaching Us
7. Exhibition
8. Community
29. How can we help you?
Making Makers
symposium! What
do you want
included??
31. We’re turning one!
MakerKids Picnic!
Make your own pizza, rockets, GIANT
croquet……
Sunday August 11 2-5pm Dufferin Grove Park
32. Andy Forest – Chief Instigator
andy@makerkids.ca
@Maker_Kids
www.makerkids.ca
Editor's Notes
Who’s heard of the Make movement?Basically DIY with a tech slant.Started in 2005 with the publication of the first Make magazine.
7 million monthly unique visitors56% male, 44% female
Collective community workshops known as Hackerspaces or Makerspaces enable tool and idea sharing around the world. They have grown from 124 worldwide in 2009 to over 1100 in 2012. We are one of the first kids’ Makerspaces, empowering everyone to be a Maker.
As you all know, enrolment in science, technology, engineering and math is declining. I believe that part of this is consumer culture. We are encouraged to treat our gadgets, our computers, our apps, our bicycles, as black boxes that just perform for us. We're not encouraged to modify, to hack, to make our own. Consume, not create.I was reading an article about a professor who asked his first year engineering class to raise their hand if they had used a drill press before
Hands-on shop education is being removed from the earlier grades in school. What remains is taught in a step by step fashion - follow these instructions and come up with this exact end product. I actually built a spice rack in grade 8 in school. When I took it home, it didn't fit any spice bottle or even those little cans. The shop teacher had reduced the measurements to save wood, not thinking that anyone would actually try and use it.
Our recipe for making a youth MakerSpace. No one MakerSpace is the same. It’s like my favourite meal of the day, brunch. Some people stick with eggs and bacon, some like a goat cheese and spinach omelet, and I like something really off the wall like the Brunch Bibimbap at my new favourite restaurant 3030. What I’m going to talk about is our recipe. Take the ingredients you want, and remix your own recipe.
Don't necessarily even need a space, maybe you just need a cart. - Susan ConsidineFayetteville Free LibraryInnisfil – equipment rotating around branchesI started with a summer camp in 2010. I basically grew up building crazy things, and wanted to encourage and enable my 3 kids to do the same. So the first year was 10 kids - mine and their friends, making projects in my garage for a week. I had lots of parents and other adult volunteers to help out.
We started with simple tools – saws, soldering irons. More expensive tools like the 3D Printer came later. The key was real tools that kids don’t necessarily have or are allowed to use at home.
If they cannot use a tool, then they find another way. Originally, Zoe, was trying to create her 4 ft bow using a hand saw. After hours, she stopped and asked to be trained in using the jigsaw. By the end of that class she had overcome her fear and had created a form to shape her bow! Which of the two do you think is the most important!
If they cannot use a tool, then they find another way. Originally, Zoe, was trying to create her 4 ft bow using a hand saw. After hours, she stopped and asked to be trained in using the jigsaw. By the end of that class she had overcome her fear and had created a form to shape her bow! Which of the two do you think is the most important!This is a very different approach to teaching. We’re used to helping kids where they need help, and it’s hard to let them fail on their own. Emphasizing this approach with our is very important.
For us, it’s not enough that you have a cool idea, and someone else made it for you. It’s important that you went through the process of making it. Find the passion!Our big project that year was soap box cars with a race on the last day. The kids organized themselves into three teams, and each built a completely different car.
Our big project that year was soap box cars with a race on the last day. The kids organized themselves into three teams, and each built a completely different car.
Our big project that year was soap box cars with a race on the last day. The kids organized themselves into three teams, and each built a completely different car.
The girls' team made sure all four of them could fit on it at once, the seats were comfortable, and they all had a job to do - steering, brakes, navigator, etc. That thing was huge! Both boys teams wanted to go as fast as possible, at the expense of everything else - ease of steering and braking, sturdiness, etc. We had to field-repair them multiple times as they fell apart. They had a great time and learned all about the tools and how to safely use them. Being driven by their own priorities made them own their project and pushed them to succeed with it.
Alex, 12 year old kid, wanted to build something......adults didn't know how. He figured out how. Then re-did every single step so that he could document the process and share with others online! Be open to learning things from kids, and when it happens, share it!
Take 1 min: Write down 2-3 things that we could help you with. We are planning to develop curriculum along with Girls Learning Code and TIFF that could be used by other educators (eg teachers, maker programs in libraries) run a Making Makers symposium showing casing this curriculum.
That's a measure of success I encourage with the kids - what will make your project into the coolest thing you have ever seen?
That's a measure of success I encourage with the kids - what will make your project into the coolest thing you have ever seen?
That's a measure of success I encourage with the kids - what will make your project into the coolest thing you have ever seen?
Their advice? Be patient when working in a group! Lesson Learned? Make sure when you’re drilling something, you put something underneath it so you don’t drill through the table.
Contests are an great motivator. The Submarine Challenge – by the curiosity machine
Their advice? Be patient when working in a group! Lesson Learned? Make sure when you’re drilling something, you put something underneath it so you don’t drill through the table.