{"data":{"ID":210,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351707212,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom","Handle":"Invent_to_Learn:Making-Tinkering-and_Engineering_in_the_Classroom","ShortDescription":"Bring the power of inventing to the classroom with new materials, digital fabrication, and computing by incorporating these new technologies across the curriculum. The making\/tinkering\/fabrication revolution is exploding outside of school. Now you can create a classroom makerspace regardless of budget or experience.","Description":"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but invention is the mother of learning!\r\n\r\nImagine a place where hard fun and problem solving combine with computing and tinkering. This could be your classroom and your students the masters of their own learning. \r\n\u2022\tDiscuss how digital fabrication is changing the world and its potential effect on schooling.\r\n\u2022\tLearn what kinds of materials and resources are needed and where to find them.\r\n\u2022\tExplore how to bring learning through tinkering and invention to the classroom no matter your budget.\r\n\u2022\tLearn to justify this 21st century project-based learning.\r\n\u2022\tDifferences for elementary, middle years, and secondary schools will be explored.\r\n\u2022\tDiscover changes in design methodology that impact the traditional scientific method.\r\n\u2022\tExplore making across the curriculum.\r\n\u2022\tAppreciate the promise of S.T.E.M. when rooted in the maker ethos and constructionism.\r\n\u2022\tReinvent approaches to teacher professional development.\r\n\u2022\tSituate tinkering, hacking, inventing and making in a sound theoretical context for learning.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This will be a conversation about the particular contexts that people bring to the session. A bit of a \"do-it-yourself\" clinic. As we find out who is coming to Educon, we hope to include other teachers with makerspaces in their classrooms to come and share their experiences. If that is possible, we could break into smaller groups, perhaps by interest (programming vs. fabrication) or elementary, middle, HS. It sort of depends on who is coming to Educon. Would love to include some SLA teachers in this too, since they are obviously doing some of this at SLA.","Presenter":["Sylvia Martinez","Gary Stager"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Generation YES","Constructivist Consortium"],"PresenterEmail":["sylvia@genyes.org","gary@stager.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":8,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"if selected, please schedule on Saturday, thanks!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}