ISKME's Teachers as Makers Academy 2012
About
A two day professional development teacher training opportunity for the Maker inside each of us. We will explore Open Educational Resources (OER) and Maker-Teacher collaborations to facilitate innovation in the classroom. The Makers’ projects are points of inspiration for Teachers while they engage in design-thinking activities to create, remix, and share OER Projects with online collaborative tools.
Schedule
Day 1:
Morning Session
9:00-10:00
- Welcome and Introductions
- Review Goals and Schedule
- Improv Warm Up: Name Gesture Circle and Yellow Ball
- Share Out: Maker Faire takeaways and inspirations
- Design Lab Photos and Videos
- Make an OER
- School of the Future Video by Lexi and Lily
10:00-12:30
- Teaching Process and Community Reflections
- 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
- Investigating Sharks
- Water Filtration & Fine Filters
- Tending the Commons
- Portable Fluid Power Demonstrator
- Mauro ffortisimo http://www.mauroffortisimo.com/index.html, Maker Video. Piano Liberado Video, Photos and deconstructed piano tagged Resources on OER Commons
Lunch 12:30-1:00
Afternoon Session
1:00-4:00
Maker Teacher Collaboration
- Maker Projects: 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.
San Mateo Makers:
Open Clay Project: using polymer clay to explore fractals and biological science
Open Clay Project
Invented Art: computer science, electronics and kinetic art
Invented Art Sculptures
RAFT: Resource Area For Teachers
RAFT
Detroit Makers:
District VII Detroit: multi-media art i3Detroit
Arts & Scraps: recycling and learning
Austic Labs: intuitive learning boardgames
Needle Arts
New York Makers:
Boswyck Farms: hydroponic systems
Adam Matta: bikewheel beatboxing
Jonah Cohen: drawbot
- Wrap Up & Reflections
Day 2:
Morning Session:
9:00-12:30
- Warm Up Yes, And Improv Activity: Vacations
- Review Schedule of Day 2
- Sun Curve Challenge: example of a DIY project that inspired teaching around sustainability.
- 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, and have time to brainstorm and present their design solutions
- Prototype Presentations and feedback
- Photos & more photos of the Design Process and the Living Canopy & Irrigation System using Alternative Energy (ISAE) Prototypes
Design Inspiration - The Metropol Parasol, Sevilla, Spain
Lunch 12:30-1:00
Afternoon Session:
1:00-4:00
- Create OER using OER Commons Open Author
- Curricular Resources: Search and Tag resources Teachers as Makers, rate, and review resources on OER Commons
- Reflections on Projects, questions, highlights, and next steps
- Wrap Up and Closing