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ISKME's Professional Development Summer Academy is an opportunity for teachers to create, share, collaborate and be inspired by experiencing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Projects that they can easily adapt to their teaching.
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Teachers as Makers Summer Academy
A two day professional development teacher training for the Maker inside each of us. We will explore how Maker-Teacher collaboration can facilitate innovation in the classroom. The Makers’ Projects are points of inspiration for Teachers as they experience DIY inquiry and design. Teachers will have time to brainstorm, create, reflect, and share how their experiences at Maker Faire and with Make Teacher Academy can translate into their teaching using online resources and collaborative tools.
Academy Location and Dates:
- Henry Ford Museum August 3-4, 2010 Detroit, Michigan
Main Goals of the Academy
- To educate and inspire teachers through DIY inquiry and design.
- To build awareness for Open Educational Resources (OER), stimulate the creation of new OER materials around a timely and motivating subject, and support students and teachers in using various technologies (wikis, blogs, video) and collaborative processes
- To facilitate students, teachers, and other participants to be makers of learning and reflect upon their design processes to help new groups of student innovators to invent and continuously improve the program and learning materials.
Participants will be expected to:
- Attend Professional Development Academy
- Collaborate in an online workspace with other academy attendees and peers
- Work with a Maker Mentor
- Develop and share OER materials
- Act as a teacher leader locally an virtually around DIY and OER principles, actions, and outcomes
Registration
Join the Academy by contacting Megan Simmons, ISKME's Education Program Manager megan@iskme.org or 650.728.3322
This workshop is free of charge for 20 teachers.
Please provide the following information: Name; Email; School, Subject, and Grade taught; and if you will be bringing your own laptop
Resources for teachers:
Pre-workshop Activities:
- Become a member of the Make: Education Network and introduce yourself and share a highlight from Maker Faire
- Join OER Commons
Day 1:
Morning Session
9:00-10:00
- Welcome and Introductions
- Review Day 1 Schedule
- Improv Warm Up: Name Gesture Circle and Yellow Ball
- Share Out: Maker Faire takeaways and inspirations
- Design Lab Photos and Videos
- School of the Future Video by Lexi and Lily
10:00-12:30
- Teaching Process and Community Reflections
- Photos and Video
- Introduction to online collaboration:
- Open Educational Resources on OER Commons - access over 30,000 freely available open educational resources (OER) and contribute to OER by tagging, rating, and reviewing resources.
- How do we define Open Educational Resources (OER)?
- High quality content and tools
- Freely available from the internet, anytime, anywhere
- Available in multiple languages
- Shareable
- Usable and re-usable
- Browse OER Materials
- Browse Content Providers
- Advanced Search
- Contribute Content
- Conditions of Use: No Strings Attached, Remix and Share, Share Only, Read the Fine Print
- Resource Highlights:
- Design Process Video WGBH
- Physics of Roller Coasters Tech Museum of Innovation Design Challenges
- Guitar Building MIT Highlights for High School
- Build Your Own Mobile TeachEngineering
- Search and Explore
- Teachers as Makers tagged OER on OER Commons
- On Innovation http://www.oercommons.org/courses/on-innovation
- Other resources Paula G mentioned:
- Racing in America
- On Innovation Contest
- Exhibit Builder
- Teacher Appreciation Day September 25, 2010 Teachers enter museum and village for free
- Club Ed
- Digital Natives Video
- Other resources Paula G mentioned:
Lunch 12:30-1:00
Afternoon Session
1:00-4:00
Maker Teacher Collaboration
- Maker Projects at Henry Ford Museum: Innovative makers inspire teachers with their Maker Projects. Teachers get the opportunity to experience, create, and discuss Maker Projects and reflect on how the ideas covered can be incorporated into their teaching.
- MAKERS
- Peg Upmeyer Arts and Scraps
- Andy Tanguay Photography Photos
- Jessie White Green Sheep Felt
Inspirations:
- Weaving: fundraisers, teach about reuse, projects for parents, students bring in old t-shirts or use lost and found t-shirts, students make a loom, make patterns, go diagonal or in a circle, use different materials and different sized looms
- Photography: 3rd-5th light and sound, puppet theater, table top display, holiday displays, tiger cage, physics light activities with the color lenses, take pictures of student color groups with colored lenses,
- Bug Activity: can be used for science and art, important to explain, bulletin board, take home projects, bug busters for crisis resolution,bug week at school - 5 days of bugs, invite students to come up with three solutions - try new things - embrace failure - connect to people stories
- Rules and regulations: hack saw -preprep, parent volunteer, teched/shop class in middle school, students learn; teachers have to assess, know their class
Experience Reflections:
- give students enough time to complete
- different learning styles
- opens your mind
- empowering for students to make something from trash/old stuff
- a lot is made in factories in Detroit
- reuse is important for students to learn
- imperfections are beautiful - wabi sabi
- embrace failure
- great to work with hands
- simple to do projects like these
Other Maker Projects and Resources
- Deconstructed Piano Piano Liberado Video, Photos and Resources on OER Commons
Wrap Up, Reflections Collaborative Blog Entry Make: Education Network, Post Discussion Questions in the Forum and Review for Day 2
- Make: Education Network - a social networking site specifically for teachers interested in DIY. Sign up and create your profile and begin interacting with the community of over 300 Educators by posting and commenting on discussion questions in the forum, blog entries, events, photos, and videos.
Reflections:
One word to describe how you feel: hopeful, great, creative, stimulated, pvc pipe, outside the box, legacy - passing tradition of handmade things, collaboration, wabi sabi, opportunity, contagious in a good way - feeding off each other, simpatico, awesome flu,
Evening Activity: comment on blog posts and discussion questions on Make: Education Network
Day 2:
Morning Session:
9:00-12:30
- Warm Up Yes, And Improv Activity: Vacations
- Reflections from blog posts, questions
- Review Schedule of Day 2
- Tell a story about an example of your teaching around DIY that inspired you in groups of 3
- DIY Design Challenge Activity: Teachers will review the design process and design challenge to create a DIY Project for their students, and have time to brainstorm and present their design solutions
- Photos and Video
- Curricular Resources: Search and Tag resouces Teachers as Makers, rate, and review resources on OER Commons; and create OER on the OER Commons wiki
Lunch 12:30-1:00
Afternoon Session:
1:00-4:00
- Share out project ideas, followed by discussion
- Reflections on Projects, questions, highlights, and next steps
- Wikis in Plain English Common Craft Video
- OER Commons wiki - a place to upload, create, and remix/modify OER that can be shared and linked to OER Commons.
- Wiki Project Highlights:
- Design Lab
- Thank You
- Cesar Barragan's Inquiry Into Poetry
- Season Storytelling Activity
- How to Make a Solar Oven
- Wiki Project Highlights:
Other Resources we like for teaching DIY
- Wrap Up and Closing
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