Maker Workshop Part 2: Improvement and Ready Set Design
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This document discusses rethinking education and learning. It advocates moving beyond simply improving schools to making fundamental changes. Creative confidence is described as generating new solutions, and individuals are encouraged to create the status quo rather than just catch up to it. People are advised to imagine a world without limits and go do what they want in that world. Makerspaces are highlighted as places for more than just STEM, and everyone is urged to find and pursue their passions. The focus is on taking risks, starting projects now, and making a difference through innovation and creativity.
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Maker Workshop Part 2: Improvement and Ready Set Design
- 1. Improvement is no longer the challenge
- 2. We should be asking not how to do school better, but different.
- 3. What do we mean by learning?
- 5. Creative Confidence Creative Confidence is a way of “experiencing the world that generates new approaches and solutions.”
- 6. Your job isn't to CATCH UP to the status quo; the job is to CREATE and BE the status quo. Seth Godin
- 7. Do not wait for instructions
- 8. "Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do That." "Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do That."
- 9. be honest!
- 10. How many of you refused to put a credit card into a machine 15 years ago?
- 12. Yet……. How many of you have sent an emoji?
- 16. Problem with Schools • Developing these mindsets are not in the “curriculum” • How much time do we challenge students to initiate? • Schools are programmed • jazz band song selections • athletic plays • school projects
- 29. Coffeechug Cafe I am a maker
- 30. Makerspace s are more than just STEM and engineering
- 31. If MAKERSPACES are so powerful, then why are they only in isolation?
- 34. What is your WOW?
- 35. What is your WOW?
- 36. –Johnny Appleseed Paint Your Masterpiece VISION
- 39. You need to have the GUTS and HEART and the PASSION to MAKE!
- 40. Ingredients • an idea • people to work with you • a place to work • materials • money
- 41. What would our world look like if more people started projects, made a ruckus, and took risks? -Seth Godin
- 42. START NOW
- 43. Are you ready for make challenge #2
- 45. Ready, Set, Design is a quick group activity. It uses simple, inexpensive materials and is an effective tool for problem solving, creative thinking and team building.
- 46. Objective: Participants are asked to solve an open-ended problem with time and material constraints.
- 47. “I need to keep a newborn baby warm in a place with no electricity.”
- 49. share
- 50. Let’s light a fire... shall we?
- 53. Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
- 54. 3 Easy Steps 1. Don’t think about it. 2. Just start. 3. Keep starting.
- 55. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
- 56. The biggest obstacle to overcome was myself. Gretchen Rubin
- 60. Why will I be successful in this class even if I've never been successful before?
- 61. http://www.flickr.com/photos/44551921@N04/62407075 If students had a choice to go to your classroom, would you have an empty room?
- 64. “Education is what someone tells you to do. Learning is what you do for yourself.” -Skillshare Manifesto
- 65. Do not ask “What will I innovate today?”
- 66. Ask “What problem in the world needs a solution?”
- 68. no one says “go” All ideas are wasted if
- 70. When you do THIS, what happens? When you do THAT, what happens?
- 71. Kevin Ashton “The encouraging part is that everyone can create. The challenging part is that there is no magic moment of creation. Creators spend almost all their time creating, persevering despite doubt, failure, ridicule, and rejection until they succeed in making something new and useful. There are no tricks, shortcuts, or get creative quick schemes. The process is ordinary, even if the outcome is not. Creating is not magic but work.
- 72. Most of our world is made of innovations inherited from people long forgotten—not people who were rare but people who were common. What will you make today?