Getting started in maker education includes vision and purpose planning, considering space and buildings, developing norms for use, and exploring the tools of making.  This session provides opportunity to see and use the tools of a Makerspace STEM Lab with an emphasis on 3D printing and digital fabrication.

1. Getting Started with Inquiry-Based
STEM & Digital Fabrication
Presented by: Susan Wells,
Founder CEO TechTerra Education

3. Why STEM and
Maker Ed?
• Construct meaning by doing
• Creating not consuming
• Imagining and innovating

4. Jobs Today and
Tomorrow
Jerry Michalski, the founder at REX, a
technology think tank in Portland,
Ore., feared public schools and
universities aren’t keeping up with
changes in the economy.“They take
too long to teach impractical
skills,” he wrote, “and knowledge
not connected to the real world.”
“I’m skeptical that educational
and training programs can keep
pace with technology,” added
Thomas Claburn, editor-at-large at
Information Week, a news site.
May 3, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/03/what-are-humans-good-for-bosses-worry-about-the-workforce-of-tomorrow/

5. Learning Today
Learners need interpersonal skills -
compassion, empathy, vulnerability and social-emotional intelligence
“Not left brain or right brain but One Brain.” Greg Watts, dean of the College of
Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas
4 C’s-
Creation - Critical Thinking - Collaboration - Communication

6. Teaching Today
• Personalized
• Project-based and hands-on
• Competency-based, students demonstrating that they’ve
learning the knowledge and skills
• Student autonomy and choice
• Inquiry-based, driven more by a learner's questions than
by a teacher's lessons, teaching how to learn not
memorizing facts

7. Spaces for
Today’s Learners
Critical thinking
and creating
new understanding
Collaborate and
Communicate

8. Personalized
for
student and
group
needs
Focus on
STEM and
STEAM
Mobile and
Creative

9. Personalized,
small group
and large group
Hands-on
creation space
Collaborate,
Communicate,
Create

10. Project-based
Design
Creating
with Digital
Tools

11. Using space
differently
Personalization
and comfort - to
create and imagine
and communicate

12. "Makerspaces are increasingly being
looked to as a method for engaging
learners in creative, higher-order
problem-solving through hands-on
design, construction, and iteration”
–New Media Consortium Horizon Report K-12 Edition

13. Tools and Resources
AR and Video Game
Creation
Robotics

14. CNC Engraver
CNC Router
3D Printer

15. Virtual Reality and CNC Creation Software
Stop Motion
Animation
3D Pen

16. Found and Recycled Items

17. Hands-On Engineering, Design, Code

18. Circuitry, Augmented
Reality, Coding

19. AUV (Autonomous
Underwater
Vehicles) and 3D

20. Print
Resources

21. Teachers and Curriculum Connections
Learning Objectives Enhanced with 21st Century Tools
21st Century Tool - 3D and Digital CNC
Resources for Projects and Lesson Plans
https://ultimaker.com/en/resources/education/the-
savvy-3d-educator-s-superlist
https://www.tinkercad.com/teach
http://www.instructables.com/howto/3d/

22. Students are...
• Engaged
• Invested
• Problem-solvers
• Confident
• Working with powerful tools & powerful ideas
• Involved in authentic work for the real world

23. Susan Wels
Founder CEO TechTerra Education
ISTE Mobile Learning Network President
susan@techterraeducation.com
http://www.techterraeducation.com
@techterraed
@wellssusans