Maker Centered Learning
What is Maker centered learning?
Benefits
Growth Mindset
Develop a sense of AGENCY. A can do spirit.
Grit= working towards challenges, maintained effort and interest over years despite failures, adversity, and plateaus.
Craftsmanship= doing something with care and doing something like you care.
Challenge
Students lose sight of the journey and focus on the product
Possibilities
Students are exposed to something they really enjoy and incorporate whatever that may be into their life.
Its about solving your own problems.
Builds character through competence, confidence, and forming a maker identity.
Qualities YOUNG makers should have
Curious
Playful
Willing to be on task
Resourceful
persistant
know how to share knowledge, tool, support
optimism
How to incorporate this into the classroom
Students learning from each other and use co-inspirations.. seeing what their classmate is doing and getting ideas from them. Its not coping.
It is peer critique, which involves students learning from one another by providing each other with informative feedback.
Students as Teachers 3 GOALS
- The simple fact that students are experts, someone will know the answer.
- educators encourage students to be teachers has to do with efficiency: expands what they can do in the classroom.
- Encourage students to be teachers because it directly serves the educational goals.
Praising the process while still accepting high quality work.
It is project-based learning, an approach to curricular design that organizes learning and teaching around projects
Students, technology, tools can be teachers in the classroom.
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How does IT look in the classroom
Students teaching students
Students teaching teachers
Teachers and students learning alongside eachother.
community members visiting and working with the class.
Empty desks becsue students are working in the community
Students helping each other and offering feedback
Students figuring things out for themselves
Maker Empowerment
AGENCY
Sense of Agency is saying to yourself I can do that.
Agentic action is actually carrying out the choices we have made.
Agency by Design - a can do spirit that goes further into developing products. Not just looking at objects as something you can buy but as something you can make. pg. 87-88
I can do it spirit.
building, tinkering, re/designing or hacking
has to do with choice, intention, and action.
Locus refers to where a sense of agency originates and resides
Locus of agency is making, designing, redesigning, and hacking
HIGHLY COLLABORATIVE, COMMUNITY BASED, AND RELIANT ON INFORMATION SHARING.
being sensitve to the design of objects and systems.
Inclination is motivation
Capacity is the knowledge of how to do things.
Sensitivity to Design
getting different perspectives and seeing new angles
For students to see that the world is composed of objects and systems that have been designed and those designs can be tinkered with or entirely reimagined.
To get students engaged and deeply curious about their environments
to understand how the designed components of the world work,
to understand to who and what design components impact, is to be able to activate a sense of agency
its being attuned to the designed dimension of objects and systems, with an understanding that the design world is malleable
Noticing the main aspect of things. How parts a pieces fit together and are adapted to serve certain purposes
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being aware that it is possible for deigns to be reimagined or repurposed
its a dispositional outcome - a persons quality of mind and character
ability, inclination, and sensitivity
to feel empowered to change the world through making
seeing the design world as malleable
helping them develop a sense of make empowerment
Looking Closely, exploring complexity, finding opportunity
Looking closely: is about close, careful, and mindful observation
Exlporing Complexity: is to think about relationships between the various parts of an object or system
Finding the opportunity is about seeing the opportunity for building, tinkering, re/designing, or hacking.
Thinking Routines to support Sensitivity to Design
Parts, purposes, complexities: A routine that cultivates the slow looking that is fundamental to developing a sensitivity to design.
Parts, people, interactions: Designed to support maker capacities of looking closely and exploring complexity.
Think, feel, care: encourages student to imagine the experience of people other than themselves.
Imagine If: designed to target the maker capacity of finding opportunity.