Slides to engage the audience in making using LEGO. It is a hands one beginning experience so we can experience the culture of making.

1. Get ready!
Please go to
http://coffeeforthebrain.com/maker/
1. Fill out the pre workshop Padlet
2. Begin work on your nametag

2. www.coffeeforthebrain @coffeechugbooks
aarmau@gmail.com

3. LED Stickie
What you need
● 1 Sticker
● 1 LED Light
● 1 Watch Battery
Instructions
1. Poke the LED legs
through
2. Connect long leg to
+ side of battery
3. Bend legs and press
to sticker side of
sticker
4. BOOM!

4. Agenda
BUILD, PLAY, SHARE
● Introduction and Bio
● What is a Makerspace? What is a
Maker?
● Build, Play, Share Cycle
● Improvement is No Longer the
Challenge: Maker Mindset and Culture
● Make Challenge #2 Ready, Set, Design
● PBL and Makerspace: How These
Worlds Collide When Done Properly
● What’s Next?

5. Let’s Begin

6. This workshop is about
BUILDING PLAYING SHARING

7. Essential
Questions
• Why should we care about
the maker movement?
• How can you use the idea
from maker movement in
your teaching and schools?
• How can you use maker
projects to teach in an
authentic way? Should
you?
• What happens when the
maker mindset and culture
collide with project based
learning and teaching?

8. Not About The Tools
“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years
was not a particular gadget or tool but the
invention of the scientific process itself.”
Kevin Kelly

9. What in the
world is a
makerspace?

10. “Makerspaces,
sometimes referred to as
hackerspaces,
hackspaces, and fables
are creative, diy spaces
where people can gather
to create, invent, and
learn.”
Ellyssa Kroski

12. “Makerspaces encourage
project based and cross
disciplinary learning, which
leads to the type of
innovation that both schools
and businesses should be
encouraging in today’s
economy.”
Robert Brown

13. Makerspaces
are not about
the tools;
they’re about
enabling
making.

14. What is a
maker?

16. Elements
of a
Makerspace
Culture
• Curious
• Playful
• Risk Takers
• Perspective
• Persistent
• Sharing

17. Curious

18. Playful

21. Risk Taker

22. Perspective

23. Persistent

24. Sharing
Don’t be afraid to ask
and give help

26. You make
with your mind
and form the
idea with your
hands

27. Personalized
Learning
• Making and
personalized
learning go hand
in hand
• Watch any child
interact with an
online device
• “Personalized
learning is not
something
someone does to
a leaner.”

30. “We don’t wait for
inspiration. We chase it
down with circuits and
coffee!”
Coffeechug Cafe

31. 1st grade question Sharing the journey of making

32. Quick Chat
What elements currently exist in
your school(s)/classroom?
What elements need to be added
or enhanced? Why are they
lacking? What are the barriers?

33. This workshop is about
BUILDING PLAYING SHARING

34. Learning is about
stuff that sticks

35. Open the bags
Explore the contents

36. The
Rules
1. Have fun!
2. Everybody Participates
3. No wrong answers - “go
with the flow”
4. Don’t have the answer?
Think with your hands!
5. Need at least 5 people at
your table!

37. Practice
Build
Open up your bag and
build a dog with 4
bricks.
Raise your dog in the air
when done.

38. Dog Examples
Maurer family test experiment

39. Did you
know….
6, 2x4 LEGO pieces can
assemble into 915,000,000+
possible combinations?

40. Go….
Find a
Minifig

41. Instructions
Add a few bricks to your
minifig and introduce yourself
to others at your table.
● Who are you?
● Why did you come to
ITEC and/or this session?

42. 1
Minute
Build

45. Practice Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#itecia and #makersummit

46. Body parts
of
homunculi
Hands are search engine
of the mind
Largest portion of cortex
areas of brain

47. Build together
● Work at your table to create
largest standing LEGO tower
● Minifig MUST be at top

49. Practice Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#itecia and #makersummit

51. Typical
Class
Typical
Meeting
Typical
PD

52. Lean In
● Co Owners of
the work
● You care
● You are
invested
● Naturally
happens

53. Break down
tower and
return
pieces
Grab 5 random pieces

54. Grab 5 pieces
Assemble in random arrangement

56. Symbols

58. Bricks Can Mean Anything!

59. Order of People
Clockwise starting with
person closest to the
screen
30 Seconds to explain
the topic given to you.

60. My object
represents
the coolest
classroom
because

61. My object
represents
the
students in
my
classroom
because

62. My object
represents my
favorite teacher
because

63. My object
represents
the culture
of my
building
because

64. My object
represents
learning
because

65. My object
represents
a great
leader
because

66. What did we
experience that
can benefit your
classroom?

67. Hand mind connection

68. Tangible objects to
express ourselves

69. Creating metaphors and
stories

70. Think creatively about
the future and current
problems

71. Story matters
more than the
object

72. Learning journey more
important than final product

73. What will your
classroom
look like 5
years from
now?

74. The Rules
1. If not sure what to build, then let
your hands do the building AND
thinking
2. Only talk about the models,
questions only about the models,
introduce only the models
3. Divide tasks at your table

75. Assign Roles
1. Facilitator - leads the discussion, makes sure
everyone participates and everyone gets to
speak
2. Reporter - Takes photos of models and shares
to Twitter #itecia and #makersummit
3. Time Keeper - keeps everyone on time and
keeps things moving accordingly

76. What will your classroom
look like 5 years from now?
Step 1: Build individually
Step 2: Explain to table

77. Use keywords
1-3 keywords to describe your
answer
Explain to rest of group
3 minutes to build
10 minutes for sharing

78. When you finish
1. Write keywords on paper and set next to
the model
2. Take picture with the keywords so others
can understand model

79. Individual
Build
Time

80. Everyone
Shares
Vision

81. Community
Build
Consider all the ideas and
perspectives
Place models together
connecting ideas
Come up with team answer
that reporter will report out
story
Decide most important
actions steps. Be specific.
No more than 3

82. Sharing
Take a picture of your work
#itecia and #makersummit

83. Final Step
What will you do? What are you
committing yourself to changing in
your classroom/school?
Take a picture and share! Hold
yourself accountable

85. LEGO your school

94. Questions
and Pulse
Check