construct3d conference
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Getting Started with Inquiry-Based STEM & Digital Fabrication
Presented by: Susan Wells, Founder CEO TechTerra Education
Why STEM and Maker Ed?
• Construct meaning by doing
• Creating not consuming
• Imagining and innovating
Jobs Today and Tomorrow
Jerry Michalski, the founder at REX, a technology think tank in Portland, Ore., feared public schools and universities aren’t keeping up with changes in the economy.“They take too long to teach impractical skills,” he wrote, “and knowledge not connected to the real world.” “I’m skeptical that educational and training programs can keep pace with technology,” added Thomas Claburn, editor-at-large at Information Week, a news site. May 3, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/05/03/what-are-humans-good-for-bosses-worry-about-the-workforce-of-tomorrow/
Learning Today
Learners need interpersonal skills - compassion, empathy, vulnerability and social-emotional intelligence
“Not left brain or right brain but One Brain.” Greg Watts, dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas
4 C’s- Creation - Critical Thinking - Collaboration - Communication
Teaching Today• Personalized
• Project-based and hands-on
• Competency-based, students demonstrating that they’ve learning the knowledge and skills
• Student autonomy and choice
• Inquiry-based, driven more by a learner's questions than by a teacher's lessons, teaching how to learn not
memorizing facts
Spaces for Today’s Learners
Critical thinking and creating
new understanding
Collaborate and Communicate
"Makerspaces are increasingly being looked to as a method for engaging
learners in creative, higher-order problem-solving through hands-on design, construction, and iteration”
–New Media Consortium Horizon Report K-12 Edition
Teachers and Curriculum ConnectionsLearning Objectives Enhanced with 21st Century Tools
21st Century Tool - 3D and Digital CNCResources for Projects and Lesson Plans
https://ultimaker.com/en/resources/education/the-savvy-3d-educator-s-superlist
https://www.tinkercad.com/teach
http://www.instructables.com/howto/3d/
Students are...• Engaged
• Invested
• Problem-solvers
• Confident
• Working with powerful tools & powerful ideas
• Involved in authentic work for the real world
Susan Wels Founder CEO TechTerra Education
ISTE Mobile Learning Network President [email protected]
http://www.techterraeducation.com @techterraed @wellssusans