The document outlines a timeslot plan for a maker-centered learning session. It discusses why making is important for learning content and skills. Good project characteristics are described from the book "Invent to Learn" including purpose, time, complexity, connections and shareability. Project prompts should be brief, ambiguous and not focused on assessment. The session then prompts students to create a stop motion video representing what they learned that day using the Koma Koma app, considering how their earlier experiences and collaboration will inform their work.

1. Jim Tiffin Jr. - @JimTiffinJr
Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
EA Innovates – Episcopal Academy
July 13 - 16, 2015
ImageCredit:“dragonscene”bymrmayoviaFlickr,CCBY-NC2.0

2. Timeslot Plan
Overview of the next 60+ minutes maker-
centered learning time with each other…
• Talking
• Creating
• Sharing

3. Why Make?
To Learn
Content
To Learn
to Learn
To Show
Learning

4. Why Make?
To Learn
Content
To Learn
to Learn
To Show
Learning

5. Good Projects
From Invent to Learn:
• Purpose and
Relevance
• Time
• Complexity
• Intensity
• Connections
• Access
• Shareability
• Novelty

6. Project Questions
From Invent to Learn:
• Is the problem solvable?
• Is the project monumental or substantial?
• Who does the project satisfy?
• What can they do with that?

7. Project Prompts
From Invent to Learn:
• Brevity
• Ambiguity
• Immunity to assessment

8. Project Prompts
From Invent to Learn:
Bad Prompt -
• “Build a four-wheeled car that uses two
motors, one switch and rolls from a starting
line on this table and stops as close to the
finish line as possible in one minute”

9. Project Prompts
From this morning:
Good or Bad Prompt -
• “Create a levitation scene that uses
magnets.”

10. Less Me, More You
“Make a stop motion video that represents
what you learned today.”

11. Less Me, More You
To do this, you will use this tool:
Koma Koma
App

12. Questions…
Things to consider:
• How will your earlier maker-experience inform
your creation process?
• Since this is a collaborative project, how will
you work differently?
• If you haven’t used this app before, how will
you figure it out?
FYI: These don’t need answers, just
consideration 

13. Get to Work!
“Make a stop motion video that represents
what you learned today.”
Be ready to share!