Maker Center Learning
I.D. Real Benefits of M.C.L. CH1
Building Character: Students develop certain aspects of character that are deeply linked and inform the way they think and feel about themselves.
Non-cognitive skills
Developing Agency: feeling
empowered to make choices about how to act in the world.
building competence, building confidence, and forming identities.
behaviors, skills, attitudes, and strategies that are crucial to academic performance.
making experiences, inspiration, collaboration, growth mind-set, motivation, and failure-positive outlook.
Teaching and Learning in MCL: CH2
What does teaching look like in MCL?: Facilitating student collaboration, encouraging co-inspiration and co-critique, redirecting authority.
What does learning look like in MCL: all of the above (collab, co-inspire/critique, etc) and figuring it out.
Who are teachers in MCL? Students as teachers, teachers in the community, online knowledge sourcing, tools and materials. page 44
What does the Maker-Centered Classroom look like: tools and materials, storage and visibility, specific and flexible spaces
Developing a Sense of Maker Empowerment CH3
What is agency?
People exercise their agency when they consciously choose to act in ways that are intended to bring about certain effects.
Choice, Intention, and Action
Choice: capacity to make intentional choices about how to act in the world.
Acting: aware of what you're doing. You have intention to act the way that you do and that you are aware that you could make a choice to act otherwise.
Relationship between Intention and Action
Does having a sense of agency entail taking action? Not necessarily
Agency and Maker Empowerment
an abiding tendency rather than a rule-defined behavior.
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Developing a Sensitivity to Design CH 4
How do young people become sensitive to opportunities around them?
-we should encourage them to see that their worlds are largely composed of objects and systems that have been designed and can be redesigned.
What is sensitivity to design? design = structure adapted to a purpose and sensitivity to design = being attuned to the designed dimension of objects and systems with an understanding that the designed world is malleable.
2 parts to Sensitivity to Design: 1st: being attuned to designed dimension of objects and systems. how parts and pieces fit together to serve purposes. 2nd: understanding that the designed world is malleable
Cultivating sensitivity to design (ch 5 notes): 1- looking closely (close, careful, mindful observations) 2- exploring complexity (to think about relationships between various parts of an object.) 3- finding opportunity (seeing potential for building, tinkering, re-designing or hacking)
Thinking routines to support sensitivity to design: -parts, purposes, complexities. - parts, people, interactions. -think, feel, care. - imagine if.