New chapter idea in #makingmakers Book… I am currently listening to another book on increasing personal performance. I’ve read or listen to dozens of these “self-help” books.
Where is the research on creating optimal performance in the classroom.
For instance…if we know diet fuels health, why do we continue to feed our young learners brains with donuts in the morning!!! It will be tough to “make” solutions and things if they can’t stay awake! #makingmakersbook#stem#STEMeducation#steam
The educational learning model is somewhat based on many learning theories in the past especially Bloom’s. Mine is a little different:
Explore
Discover
Learn
Create
Share
Any initial thoughts?
#stemeducation#makingmakers
Making Makers - Havent posted in a while… Still continually amazed at what young learners can produce given opportunities. Been working on a book for the last couple years. It’s far enough along now that I wouldn’t mind crowd-sourcing some ideas and gathering stories. 1/3
I hope to post some of the overarching themes for chapters of the book and see if I can garner some feedback from other #stem and #steam professionals. The purpose of the book is to share thoughts and ideas on how to provide educational opportunities that create “makers”. 2/3
One of our favorite days all year! RoboGolf! This is a video of what we created last year! Excited to see what this year‘s engineers will come up with. Lots of posts today showing how we create a 9 hole mini golf course at Champions Golf Course. #MakingMakers#stem#robotics
@shirky17 Just had a chance to check this out…Create class. Create activity. Create design within that activity. Those designs will be shared with whole class. Kids can add as well. https://t.co/anCe1lmUCl
@shirky17@tinkercad Within classes can students create objects and share them into a class repository? It would be fun to assign certain parts of each biome to kids. Each kid m would be responsible for one item, but kids could create more if they want.
Happy to be associated with this great group of young engineers! @napls_hs Rocket club finished up their promotional video. https://t.co/v7CduLYrh1
#makingmakers#Stem#engineering
The Digital Eagles had a blast at the Miami Valley Regional Competition! 🦅🤖
We placed #1 overall in rankings, and went all the way to the finals, and lost to the #2 alliance. Well played from @BeakSquad4028@MARS_2614 and Team 424!
In some cases, I believe a lot depends on the amount of space you actually have and time and age and…Seriously, like @dailystem said, Find the Why. Which of the letters are you focused on? Science - need more hands on, less digital. Technology - we do a lot of this
On the Engineering side same tools as before but we add lots of building manipulative kits to lets kids just explore thing like gears, axles, etc and put in @MyRoboThink robots.