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Maker-Centered Learning (Teaching and Learning in the classroom (Who are…
Maker-Centered Learning
Benefits
Increase young people's proficiency in the STEM subjects
STEM
Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
Engaging
Students more likely to develop an interest in pursuing careers in the STEM fields
Help grow the American economy tomorrow
Developing Agency
feeling empowered to make choices about how to act in the world
I-can-do-it attitude
action-based choices related to making
build character
GRIT
perseverance and passion for long term goals
Teaching and Learning in the classroom
self-directed learning
figuring things out on one's own
learning by doing
peer collaboration
progressive education
Who are the teachers?
Students
Peer learning
Cooperative learning
Peer tutoring
project-based learning
peer critique
ad hoc peer learning
Why?
efficiency
expands what maker educators can do in the classroom
Sometimes students are the experts
powerful for confidence building
pedagogical mainstay of maker-centered learning
Teachers
Instructor
traditional didact
facilitator
coach
modeling desired behavior/ mentor
counselor
learning right along with their students
facilitating student collaboration
Encouraging Co-inspiration an Co-critique
redirecting authority and the ethics of knowledge sharing
Tools and materials
online sources
Educational Theories
Constructivism
knowledge is constructed via the interaction between learners' conceptual schema and their experiences in the world
Consructionism
building knowledge structures where the learning in consciously engaged in constructing a public entity
Developing a sense of Maker Empowerment
Agency by Design
Agency
consciously choose to act in ways that are intended to bring about certain effects
Scope
grain-size of actions wanting to refer to when talking about having sense of agency
Locus
relates to making, designing, redesigning, and hacking
Choice, intention, action
Maker empowerment
sensitivity to the designed dimension of objects and systems, along with the inclination and capacity to shape one's world through building, tinkering, re-designing, or hacking
Developing a sensitivity to design
focused and curious
the hidden mechanics
Design
structure adapted to a purpose
being attuned tot he designed dimension of objects and systems, with an understanding that designed is malleable
understanding that a design is malleable means that it is possible to envision changing it
Teaching and learning in action
Framework
developing thinking routins
Parts, Purposes, Complexities
Parts, People, Interactions
Think, Feel, Care
Imagine if....
Roles
Jobs
What is it?
What is it?
