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1. Get ready!
Please fill out the pre workshop question
at
coffeeforthebrain.com/maker

2. Let’s Begin

3. Are you ready
for the LEGO
duck challenge?

4. The Challenge
• Time: 60 Seconds
• Goal: Build the best duck you can create!

6. Duck Reflection
• What skills were used to make
a duck?
• Were any ducks the same?
• What lessons did you learn?
• What things would you try next
time?

7. Power of Play
• Team building
• Unleashing creative thinking
• Work out solutions
• Shared mindset about a topic
• Constructive discussions
• Shared vision
• Leadership development
• Can be used by anyone!

8. LEGO your
school

10. www.coffeeforthebrain @coffeechugbooks
aarmau@gmail.com

11. Agenda
BREAK
00:00 - 00:10 - Make Challenge #1: LEGO Duck Challenge
00:10 - 00:20 - Introduction and Bio
00:20 - 00:50 - Improvement is No Longer the Challenge: Maker Mindset
and Culture
MAKE
00:50 - 01:10 - Make Challenge #2
01:10 - 01:30 - PBL and Makerspace: How These Worlds Collide When
Done Properly
DO
01:30 - 02:00 - Make Challenge #3: Interactive Notecards
02:00 - 02:30 - What’s Next?

12. Questions to find answers to
during this workshop
• Why should we care about the maker movement?
• How can you use the idea from maker movement
in your teaching and schools?
• How can you use maker projects to teach in an
authentic way? Should you?
• What happens when the maker mindset and
culture collide with project based learning and
teaching?

13. Elements of a Makerspace
Culture
• Curious
• Playful
• Risk Takers
• Perspective
• Persistent
• Sharing

14. Curious

15. Playful

18. Risk Taker

19. Perspective

20. Persistent

21. Sharing
Don’t be afraid to
ask and give help

23. –Johnny Appleseed
You make with your mind and
form the idea with your hands

24. Personalized Learning
• Making and
personalized learning
go hand in hand
• Watch any child interact
with an online device
• “Personalized learning
is not something
someone does to a
leaner.”

27. Coffeechug Cafe
“We don’t wait for
inspiration. we chase
it down with circuits
and coffee!”

28. Quick Chat
• What elements currently exist in your school(s)/
classroom?
• What elements need to be added or enhanced?
Why are they lacking? What are the barriers?

29. Improvement is no
longer the challenge

30. We should be
asking not
how to do
school better,
but different.

31. What do we
mean by
learning?

33. Creative Confidence
Creative Confidence
is a way of
“experiencing the
world that generates
new approaches
and solutions.”

34. Seth Godin
Your job isn't to
CATCH UP
to the status quo;
Your job is to CREATE
and BE the
status quo.

35. Do not wait for
instructions

36. "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."

37. based on ideas of Gary vaynerchuk
Live in the white space of now! Today!
NOW

38. be honest!

39. How many of you
refused to put a
credit card into a
machine 15 years
ago?

41. Ye t … … .
H o w m a n y o f y o u h a v e s e n t a n e m o j i ?

42. Why is this important?

45. 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

50. MY STORY
parent perspective

59. Coffeechug
Cafe
I am a maker

60. Makerspaces
are more than
just STEM and
engineering

61. If MAKERSPACES
are so powerful,
then why are they
only in isolation?

63. Technological change is not
addi/ve; it is ecological,
which means, it changes
everything.
Neil Postman

65. What is your WOW?

66. What is your WOW?

68. –Johnny Appleseed
Paint Your Masterpiece
VISION

70. You need to have the GUTS
and HEART and the PASSION
to MAKE!

71. Ingredients
• an idea
• people to work
with you
• a place to work
• materials
• money

72. -Seth Godin
What would our world
look like if more people
started projects, made a
ruckus, and took risks?

73. START
NOW

74. Let’s light a fire... shall we?

75. Unlimited Potential
http://www.pitsco.com/Classroom_Solutions/?tree=11&art=10323

77. Where Do
Good Ideas
Come From?

78. 3 Easy Steps
1. Don’t think about it.
2. Just start.
3. Keep starting.

79. William Faulkner
Don’t bother just to
be better than your
contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself.

80. The biggest obstacle to overcome was myself.
Gretchen Rubin

81. Change your PERCEPTION?

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

84. http://www.flickr.com/photos/44551921@N04/6240707542/
If students had a choice to go to your
classroom, would you have an empty
room?

85. Make it HAPPEN NOW!

86. -Skillshare Manifesto
“Education is what someone tells you to do.
Learning is what you do for yourself.”

87. Do not ask
“What will I
innovate today?”

88. Ask
“What problem
in the world
needs a
solution?”

90. no one says “go”
All ideas are wasted if

92. When you do THIS, what
happens?
When you do THAT, what
happens?

93. 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.

94. What will you make today?
Most of our world is made
of innovations inherited
from people long forgotten
—not people who were rare
but people who were
common.

95. MAKE something DIFFERENT

96. MAKE something INNOVATIVE

97. MAKE something AWESOMESAUCE

98. make challenge #2
it is time for

100. I need to carry groceries
up several flights of
stairs.

102. share and break
Head over to http://padlet.com/
coffeechug/gwaea and on this
Padlet add something new you have
gained in learning, new thought,
ideas you disagree with, questions
you would like answered, etc.

103. maker and pbl

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

158. Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.

159. Explore the
OneNote

160. DO

161. Interactive Postcard

162. Basic Template
http://highlowtech.org/?p=2505

163. What is your SPARK?

164. What’s next?

165. • When you do THIS, what happens?
• When you do THAT, what happens?
• What will you do TODAY? TOMORROW?

166. Wonder - I wonder what happens if I…..

167. Notice - where is the talent? what works in other
places?

168. Connect - everyone is lonely and has time and
energy to spend on things that matter

169. Understand - why things succeed, why
people do what they do, understand the
mechanics where you want change to
happen

170. Leap - there is no bridge or step by step
approach. You have to jump to make it
possible

171. Challenge - the status quo, the people
you work with, what is possible

172. Transform - the world around you, make
the change happen

173. Contribute - once you start leading you
will find leaders all around you.
Contribute and add value to them and
vice versa.

174. When you actually MAKE, you….
• gain ownership of learning
• gain power of self
• gain power to make things
happen

175. When we make
• there is risk of failure
• most things break
• most things fail
• most ideas don’t work

176. you must do the work

177. Paint your
Masterpiece
before you
start

178. You cannot grow by staying predictable and
ordinary

180. Boundaries are only in your head

182. In todays society, not starting is far worse than
being wrong

185. If you are
• not willing to learn
no one can help
you
• determined to
learn no one can
stop you

186. How can your learning change the world?

187. Tony Wagner
The world does not care
what you know but rather
what you can do with
what you know.

188. Don’t mistake motion for progress

189. Jay Gatsby
“What would be the use of doing great things if
I could have a better time telling her what I was
going to do?”

190. Siddhartha Gautama
“There two mistakes one can make
along the road to truth.
Not going all the way, and not
starting.”

192. The time is now!
What are you going to bring to the world?

193. –Johnny Appleseed
Don’t You Dare

194. My challenge to you
TO
START

196. Discovery cannot be a setup, invention cannot be schedule
Discovery cannot be a setup,
invention cannot be
scheduled

198. www.coffeeforthebrain.com
@coffeechugbooks
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